Obsolete Spells
Poems & Prose from Victor Neuburg & the Vine Press
$48.58
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
30 August 2022
Summary
A collection of rare pagan poetry and purple prose from the heart of the 1920s counterculture.
Victor Neuburg is most famous for two things—discovering Dylan Thomas, and being the man that Aleister Crowley once turned into a camel. Obsolete Spells offers another side of Neuburg, through his own poems and the strange books of Vine Press, the hand-operated imprint he ran from his West Sussex cottage between 1920 and 1930.
Neuburg’s youth involved terrifying-yet-farcical…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913689261 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1913689263 |
| Author: | Justin Hopper |
| Publisher: | Strange Attractor Press |
| Imprint: | Strange Attractor Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 30 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 504g |
| Dimensions: | 191mm x 127mm |
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About The Author
Justin Hopper
Justin Hopper is an American writer based in Britain. His work explores the intersection of landscape, memory and myth. His site-specific audio poetry works have been commissioned by arts organisations and festivals in the US and UK. For Wood Street Galleries in the US, Hopper has curated a decade-long series of contemporary landscape-art exhibitions. His most recent release, the 2019 spoken-word and music album Chanctonbury Rings from Ghost Box Records, was called “an album of sensual spellcraft” by Caught by the River.
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