Description
| Product ID: | 9781913689261 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Obsolete Spells |
| Subtitle: | Poems & Prose from Victor Neuburg & the Vine Press |
| Authors: | Author: Justin Hopper |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 years as Crowley''s lover, victim, and magickal sidekick. His later period, as editor of the influential "Poet''s Corner" column for the Sunday Referee, found him a key figure in London''s literary scene. But in between, Neuburg acted as a conduit for bohemian writers, arts luminaries, and the sexually adventurous: Peter Warlock set his words to music, singer Marian Anderson lived in his spare room, and he was a fixture at utopian community, the Sanctuary. Through it all, he turned the handle on the Vine Press: books of nature writing and anonymous song; poems and artwork worthy of The Wicker Man, side-by-side with a book on cricket. Obsolete Spells offers a selection of Neuburg''s work and others from Vine Press books--over-the-top hymns to the Old Gods, tales from a utopian landscape, and more, most of which has been out of print for a century. |
| Imprint Name: | Strange Attractor Press |
| Publisher Name: | Strange Attractor Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-06-15 |