It was through a small press poetry magazine that I first became aware of the artist Ithell Colquhoun. In the early 2000s I found a copy of the fourth issue of Ore in a charity shop in Wadebridge, Cornwall. Within its pages were mysterious and intriguing poems by Colquhoun that were later included in her collection Grimoire of the Entangled Thicket.

This was Nature poetry unlike anything else I had ever read before. Poems that referenced the turning of the wheel of the year, of mysterious ancient festivals and lore. Alongside the poems were images: sketches by Colquhoun ...

 

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