BOOK OF HAG (Second Season: Peat)

This rich and complex contemplation on old womanhood features 22 stories and mythic tales, 27 chapters in the unfurling journey of Peat on the Hag Road, 13 peat prayers, 14 paintings of the Marsh Wolves (mûkthno wailî), 5 hag photographs, plus Journal From the Bend in the River, Notes from the Hag Road and Songs for the Hag Road. Images and excerpts from this new publication will appear here after the launch exhibition in Glastonbury, November 22-24.

STORIES & MYTHIC TALES

The Girl-At-Heart * A Confluence Of Drums * Crone-Elder-Hag * Every Hag Hopes To Be Hilarious * One Thousand Nuns * Witch Hedge * Holy Hags * The Wrong Kind Of Ancestors * Small Grey Feathers * In The Garden Of The Mighty Hag * Dangerous Cardigans * Breccia’s Cave * Sealy Stones * Shall We Dissolve Into The Ocean? * Dark Grandmother * Gracefully And Precariously * When The Plague Wolves Came * A Comfort Of Crones * Magical Mushroom * Sister Songs In Times Of War * The Last Song I Will Scrape From Ice * What Will You Wrap In Your Bone Bundle?

PEAT ON THE HAG ROAD

That Strange Girl * There Was Housekeeping To Be Done * Where Our Eyes Wanted To Go * Both Hopeful And Mystical * Why I Wear This Coat * A Lament So Painful It Splintered My Heart * Requiem Of The Fourteen * Run Until Your Fine Bone Fragments Rattle * What If You Were Wrapped In Wolf? * Once Seen Can Never Be Unseen * Invocation Of The Fourteen * Our Fingers Understand That Grace Exists * Hymn Of The Fourteen * Domestic Intimacy With These Feral Old Women * Committing Ourselves To This Edgeless World * Never Released From This Prayer * This Silence Was Not Mine To Possess * Pinned To Her Footsteps * Changes Settle Like Quivering Fish * We Have Reached The Inward Spiral * We Drum Our Path Through The Heron’s Marsh * There Are Women On The Far Side Of The Fire * As If There Were Wolves At My Heels * The Stars Turned, Unimpeded By My Anger * A Single Small Bead Sewn Into The Cloth * Exultation Of The Fourteen * A Gift Quite As Precious As Life

PEAT PRAYERS

We Are Korksâ * We Are Bargo * We Are Salik * We Are Rindjâ * We Are Tantâ * We Are Yoyni * We Are Lugrâ * We Are Kollo * We Are Selgâ & Serrâ * We Are Kuruko * We Are Towto * We Are Meini * We Are Webru

MARSH WOLVES PAINTINGS

KORKSÂ wolf of herons * BARGO wolf of blue-skin magic * SALIK wolf of willows * RINDJÂ wolf of mending bundle * TANTÂ wolf of creels * YOYNI wolf of singing reeds * LUGRÂ wolf of moons * KOLLO wolf of one-eye magic * SELGÂ wolf of arrows * SERRÂ wolf of bronze crescent * KURUKO wolf of coracles * TOWTO wolf of left-hand magic * MEINI wolf of mirrors * WEBRU wolf of amber beads