"Voices of Winter Spirits" Ink on kraft card #asemic #asemicwriting #asemicpoetry #magick #sigilmagick

I rarely comment here on current affairs but can I just say that "wrath" is a quality that "justice" famously and correctly, should never have. Justice is blind for a reason. It is not wrathful.

Spiral spell sea shore shells.

Found this goddess on the shore today. As a piece of flint she somewhere around 80 million years old. She is a cretaceous goddess.

250 pages and more of three collections held together in this Fitcarraldo volume. More poetry than I would usually read in one go but this kept my interest all the way through, treading the paths of Greek myths in new ways. The Greek word 'tragedy' means 'goat-song'!

In the Desert By Stephen Crane

A small shrine on the edge of the water. Driftwood, burnt wood, root and shells.

Trying a new ink which arrived as part of a lovely Christmas present.

Trying a new ink which arrived as part of a lovely Christmas present.

New housing goals.

Found driftwood sculpture. Shapes. Ships. Letters. Word.

Time again to share the incredible and poingant "Christmas Tree" by James Merrill. Written during what he knew would be his last illness as he was looked after by friends and family.

Blackthorn Solstice sigils

Had such a great time last night creating an ephemeral piece of asemic writing at the monthly "Witch Choir" event at Treadwells bookshop. Surrounded by a stunning sphere of voice sounds and emotive noises from the 'choir' making a devotional offering to Saturn at the Solstice!

"A Single Line of Poetry" Ink on cartridge paper #asemicpoetry #asemicwriting #asemic #sigilmagick

I am very excited to be working with the amazing Nicole Bettencourt Coelho at Treadwells next week creating a large scale asemic text within the Witch Choir event. A Saturniun Solstice evening in sound & text Witch Choir – In-Person Event | Treadwells share.google/5qyTdlgcBeYX...

Delighted to add another to my collection of a genre I call Hookland Schoolbooks. 60s and 70s anthologies of poetry and prose, usually themed and illustrated with gritty back and white photos. Always edited by the head of English at some midlands comprehensive school.

"Five Line Poems From the Circle" Ink on cartridge paper. #asemicwriting #asemic #asemicpoetry

"For our time is the passing of a shadow And our lives will run like Sparks through the stubble." Song of Solomon via "Blue" by Derek Jarman

"Four Poems I Can't Speak" Ink on cartridge paper #asemic #asemicpoetry #asemicwriting

Highgate cemetery in its managed dereliction, rot and crumble, lends itself to black and white images.

"Writing Home" Ink on catridge paper #asemic #asemicwriting #asemicpoetry

Not so much American Beauty as London Peculiar

The light and colours in Highgate Cemetery today was just extraordinary.

The colonnade at Brompton Cemetery this afternoon in low late-autumn sun and delapidation

Thank you to @treadwells-books.bsky.social in London, it's always lovely to see your own work on a bookshop shelf out in the wild.

"The Rings of Saturn" Willow charcoal on cartridge paper. #asemicwriting #asemicpoetry #asemicart #chaosmagick

Doing a spot of "decluttering" this evening and have found new homes for this lot with friends...

A wee visit to an antiques centre today, and my eye is always drawn to the things made of paper!

Things found on a beach...

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Autumn: half-way between beauty and rot.

It's a wonder Anglesey's beaches have any pebbles left on them at all!

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Visited this ruined and overgrown parish church on Anglesey as the light was fading and, this does not happen very often, absolutely did not like the atmosphere. Could not wait to get out and away.

Meeting ancient trees is always amazing, this yew though in Llangernyw in North Wales is thought to be 4,000, perhaps 5,000 yrs old! It is older than Christianity and Stonehenge. 0ne of the oldest living beings on the planet.

The extraordinary Barclodiad y Gawres, a 4,500 yr old neolithic chamber on the cliffs above the Irish Sea. Very atmospheric. The chamber is unusual for containing spirals, circles and other shapes chiselled into the stones, part visible in last photo.

Holiday reading: "North" by Gyrus. An ambitious attempt to lay a narrative onto the development of human consciousness from our earliest prehistory. Dense and intense but one of those books which, even when you disagree with it, is giving you new avenues of thought on every page.

Walked out to Eglwys Cwyfan (St Kevin's Church) off the shore of Anglesey today. It dates from 12th century and was nearly lost to coastal erosion: it used to be joined to the land. Now only accesible once the tide is out a certain way.

The extraordinary colours of seaweed.

Drove half-way up a mountain today to a bookshop in an old slate mine where an elderly deaf man shouted at me about the evils of the modern world for ten minutes before I could leave with my haul, after making me pay by bank transfer from my phone!

The long walk to Ynys Llandwyn where St Dwynwen (the Welsh St Valentine) set up a hermitage and where Wales's richest pilgrimage centre flourished for hundreds of years.

Found a sinister copy of Golidlocks and the Three Bears today in a junk shop. Some child blacked out her eyes throughout!

Bryn Celli Ddu this morning. A 4,000 year old neolithic chamber which began as a henge 1,000 years before that. This chamber aligned perfectly on the dawn moment of the midsummer sun. The whole was reconstructed after its excavation in the early 20th century.

The view over to Eryri this afternoon from Anglesey

Have unpacked in our holiday let on Anglesey. Holiday reading ready to go just as soon as the pizza is ready.

When you can look up from your meditations on the shoreline of a heavily militarized modern harbour and see a nearly complete Roman fort over the waves with a modern firing range behind you and the howls of Napoleonic POWs on the wind.

Six spells for six friends.