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ankh_hpl ([personal profile] ankh_hpl) wrote2012-11-30 03:26 pm

Avatars of Wizardry out now from P'rea Press

Devotees of the richly scented verse of Clark Ashton Smith -- or any fan of the well-crafted weird -- will be happy to learn that a new anthology of poetry inspired by CAS & George Sterling is available now from Australia's P'rea Press.

Avatars of Wizardry (ed. by Charles Lovecraft, with foreword by S.T. Joshi ) includes both Sterling's "A Wine of Wizardry" and Smith's "The Hashish-Eater," but also offers contemporary responses to these works by Richard L. Tierney, Leigh Blackmore, Alan Gullette,  Bruce Boston, Earl Livings,  Wade German, Michael Fantina, & Kyla Lee Ward.

I was fortunate enough to read this anthology earlier this year.   This is definitely one for the long winter nights -- filled with  substantial,  deeply strange, often hallucinatory poems which take the time they need to deliver their impact.

Find more information (including extracts from the poems!) here.

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