The Winter 2025 issue (no 28) of Gramarye, the journal of the University of Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction, has been announced. Pre-orders are now being taken: print copies are only available to pre-ordering customers or subscribers.
Edited by Paul Quinn and Naomi Foyle, this issue includes essays on ‘The Kinder Mermaid and the English and Welsh Lake Ladies’ by Simon Young; ‘“Places of a Lonely Character”: The Landscape of the Pooka’ by Natalie Hagar; ‘Reinventing the Green Man: Myth, Ritual and the Construction of a Modern Folklore Icon’ by Anil Balan; and ‘Of Technology and Fantasy: Fairy Tales, Fables, and the Transformation of Illustration in the Long Nineteenth Century’ by Susana Montañés-Llera.
The journal also includes fantasy and folklore poetry, and this issue has two poems by me. ‘Sea Myths’ draws on legends of Phoenician voyagers to Cornwall, while ‘Three Spells for the Conjuring Stone’ responds to the folklore associated with an ancient recumbent stone in North Yorkshire: this is accompanied by my note on the ghostly traditions associated with the stone.
There are also substantial reviews of books of interest, including faery encounters in the medieval world and Irish wonder tales of the otherworld.
(Mark Valentine)
Thanks Mark. I just ordered a copy. And just out of curiosity, where is the University of Chichester. Being a Californian, I’m not that familiar with the name. The table of contents looks very interesting. I recently finished a book on the mythology of the Green Man and ever since I saw the movie, “Harvey” with James Stewart (one of his best roles) about his friendship with a Pooka, I’ve wanted to learn more about them.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Gary. The University of Chichester is in Sussex on the South Coast of England, one of the newer universities. Mark
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