And the Whale
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And the Whale

This poetry chapbook was the winner of Paper Nautilus' 2019 Vella Chapbook contest. It is available for purchase from Paper Nautilus.

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The Flowers of Evil
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The Flowers of Evil

Baudelaire’s most famous poetical effort is the result of a slow and immersed work. The poems focus is on death, of disease, of prostitution, of the ordinary street life of Paris, of everything that shed light or spoke to humanity.

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Der Tod
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Der Tod

Der Tod is the second volume in our series of books exploring the poetry of death, transience, and transition with a focus on the nineteenth century (but not only!).

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A Season in Hell
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A Season in Hell

A Season in Hell is an extended poem in prose written and published in 1873 by French writer Arthur Rimbaud.

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Mandragora
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Mandragora

Edited by Ruby Sara, Mandragora: Further explorations in esoteric poesis is a companion volume to Datura, comprising nine extensive essays and the works of 48 poets.
Mandragora: Further explorations in esoteric poesis is a companion volume to Datura, comprising nine extensive essays and the works of 48 poets. A chthonic and deeply rooted work.

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Datura
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Datura

Edited by Ruby Sara, Datura: Explorations in esoteric poesis collects the work of 26 leading poets from the occult and pagan communities, accompanied by six essays on the agony and ecstasy of the creative process.

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Tara Morgana
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Tara Morgana

Tara Morgana is a work of pure magical writing. Part magical diary, part dreamscape, part dérive, Tara Morgana is an enigmatic record of ritual practice from poet Paul Holman.

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Our Failing Shadows
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Our Failing Shadows

These 25 spell-poems are otherworldly meditations on the themes of love, death, sin, redemption, ecology and nature, the ritual year, and the soul’s yearnings.

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The Longest Night
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The Longest Night

Alexander Menid’s new collection of 25 spell-poems explores the dark half of the year; that is, the six months from the autumn equinox to the vernal equinox.

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Convolvulus and Other Poems
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Convolvulus and Other Poems

This is the long-awaited volume of collected poems by Kenneth Grant. Included here are two collections previously published as Black to Black and other poems (1963) and The Gull’s Beak and other poems (1970). Also included is a third collection, previously unpublished Convolvulus: Poems of Love and the Other Darkness.

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Trinity Star Trinity
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Trinity Star Trinity

Katy Bohinc’s Trinity Star Trinity is a long poem dedicated to the divine feminine, written in response to her experiences and encounters with faith and divinity during a sojourn on the islands of Lesvos, the home of Sappho; Samos, the birthplace of Hera; and Patmos, where St John wrote the Book of Revelation.

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Ajar to the Night
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Ajar to the Night

Ajar To The Night is an exploration of esoteric philosophy through the author’s practice of devotional writing. It focuses upon the doctrine of metempsychosis; cyclical existence in all its forms on earth, universal sentience and the inexorable resurgence of the divine feminine.

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Qutub
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Qutub

There is a stream of initiatic power which flows through the Body of Gnosis, moulding the Image of the Adept, casting the Shadow-form of the Great Opposer.

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Poetica
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Poetica

Poetica is a trinity of poems that serve to guide the reader into a state of orison, to detach from the now and to connect to the other.

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