This book is just brilliant. The stories of 23 magical authors have been woven together by Sean Scullion to create multi-faceted viewpoints of anti-authoritarianism, different myths surrounding the apple and, as the description on the back says, the kaotic underbelly of our civilisation.
There are stories and poems about orchards, norse gods, wild dancing at midnight in the woods, chaos magic, conspiracies, Greek goddesses, elves and sacred groves, the tree of life, queer rebellion in police cells, benandanti, tricksters and freaks, festivals, the Isle of Apples, pirates (aaaarrrrr), faerie hugging, revenge and revelation, WWII prison escapes, Avalon, cyber worlds, sex magic and of course apples apples apples!
Wonderfully presented collection of essays, explorations and ideas by a group of experts in their fields. There is an occult flavour to the selection, without hint of New Age fluff, but perhaps it's more accurate to say the writing is simply an antidote to the mainstream. There is food for thought here, certainly. There is also a sense of coherence too, despite the apparently wide-ranging subject matter and style of the individual pieces. It will be interesting to see how that deepens over successive issues.
At a time when magazines sacrifice substance to make way for more advertising, publications like this make for stimulating reading in those precious moments snatched during the working day. My advice is to grab this first issue ... Read More:
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