The Longest Night
Limited to 50 hand-numbered copies for private distribution.
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. The folk-spells, incantations, catechisms, eulogies, hymns and evocations in ‘The Longest Night’ are otherworldy meditations on this dark tide. In observation of the seasonal calendar, they include ritual verses for Mabon, Samhain, the Winter Solstice, Yule, Imbolc, and other notable feast-days and blóts. Some evoke the spirits and deities associated with this time of year, others acknowledge its presiding energies and flora.
