Our first print edition has arrived! ‘Our Failing Shadows’ by Yorkshire-based occult poet Alexander Menid is a collection of 25 works of esoteric poesis. The first in our Black Chapbook series, this initial edition is a very limited run of 25 copies.
Format is 180 x 120mm, hardback in black bookcloth with black endpapers and a full colour dust jacket. ‘Our Failing Shadows’ is available for purchase here.
“A great deal of care and attention has gone into the design and presentation, which is both minimalist and evocative… You will find the book both engaging and eerily familiar…. It is also a text that can be worked, including invocations to spirits and even a solitary rite, with full instructions. This is not a passive book about someone else’s spiritual experience, but one which the reader too may become involved in.”
– Review by Haw & Thorn
The contents list is as follows:
- An incantation: the limen
- Lilith
- An invocation: Babalon (Enochian)
- An invocation: Babalon (translation)
- An initiatory rite (for humankind)
- A folk-song for Midsummer
- The Deepest Myth
- X
- Ghosted
- Wisdom of the dead
- An enchantment: the World Hill
- Night’s witness
- A trance-poem: fever dream
- The watcher
- A spell: witching day
- Anticosmic
- The spirit-ways
- The night-soul
- Rite of the Unseene Lorde
- Tree-scribe
- Psalm (original)
- Psalm (translation)
- An incantation: the Wild Hunt
- A curse (for humankind)
- Our failing shadows
- Canticle: love of loves
- Mortal life
Review: Walking the Tides by Nigel Pearson
