Astarology

Astarology is a new chapbook from Salò Press of Norwich. The poetry (mostly), prose and found texts in this volume explore folklore, mythology and magic, including the magic of the everyday.

Includes: ‘Rain Instruments’, ‘Moss Queen’, ‘Prophecies’, ‘Thirteen Sisters of Madame Sosostris’, ‘The Elephants of Claudius’, ‘White Hound’, ‘The Silver Hollow Boys’ and others.  

‘Mark Valentine finds poetry in the reports sent in by Edwardian rainfall observers, the advertisements of 1940s fortune tellers, the prophecies of apocalypse, and the rumours of lost hill figures, but also in tending a fire, stirring a teacup or following the course of a brook.’

Also newly announced from the press, Hothouse by Alice Hill-Woods, Word Problems by Matthew Mahaney and scavengers by Molly Ellen Pearson.  

(Mark Valentine)