ISBN 978-1-9160951-4-4
310pp
Reliquiae Volume 8 No 2 is dedicated to Canadian metaphysical poet Don Domanski, 1950—2020, and features new and old work spanning his forty-five year career. Other works include magical and medicinal incantations from Catawba, Chuckchee and Winnebago folklore / poetic rituals for severance, for inner wounds, channels and soul retrieval / charms and apotropaia from Celtic folklore / prognosticary tables using proto-Indo-European root forms / evocations of ancient Anatolia / accounts of ancient Hindu witchcraft practices / Arapaho creation myths / Hupa conceptions of the ‘under-world’ / new English translations of Náhuatl poems from pre-Columbian Mexico / poems charged with Persian mythology / ancient Nigerian conceptions of the astral forms of plants and animals.
Contributors: Peter Mark Adams, Arapaho Folklore, Jean Atkin, Mary Austin, Jakky Bankong-Obi, Dan Beachy-Quick, Catawba Folklore, Celtic Folklore, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Chukchee Folklore, Brittany Coffman, Alice Corbin Henderson, John Paul Davies, Farideh Davoudi-Moqaddam (trans. Patrick Sykes), Don Domanski, Marguerite Doyle, Stuart Farley, Whit Griffin, Amy Hale, Dominic Hand, Andy Hopkins, Helena Hunter, Hupa Folklore, Tim Lilburn, Amy Lowell, Iain Mac Nill (trans. James Carmichael Watson), H.W. Magoun, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Kiera Moore, Nezahualcóyotl (trans. Don Cellini), Nigerian Folklore, Mhàiri Nic an Tòisich (trans. James Carmichael Watson), C.C. O’Hanlon, Emily Oldfield, Peter O’Leary, Angèle Paoli (trans. Martyn Crucefix), Eleanor Rees, Larissa Reid, Autumn Richardson, Penelope Shuttle, Richard Skelton, Oliver Southall, Tom Stell, Lewis Todd, Harriet Truscott, Mark Valentine, Jane Wheeler, Winnebago Folklore.