In the Songs of Experience, William Blake contrasted the ‘soft deceitful wiles’ of enmity and jealousy (A Poison Tree), and the ‘mind-forg’d manacles’ constraining the … Read more

A wonderful and inspiring round-table discussion occurred between author Iain Sinclair, professional witch Kate Tomas, and Professor John Tresch of the Warburg Institute to explore … Read more

Many thanks to the studio of Stephen Chambers for these installation photographs of Poetry & Magic. They show Harvest, Scissors, Sword and Two Black Angels … Read more

The Ball Room with Marcelle Hanselaar’s Rebel Women of the Apocrypha (and Dark Event by Ana Maria Pacheco reflected in the mirror). Harvest by Stephen … Read more

Artist Junko Theresa Mikuriya speaking at the opening. Artist Ana Maria Pacheco speaking at the opening. Artist Marcelle Hanselaar at the opening. Art critic Martina … Read more

  What do the modern artist and the magus of antiquity have in common?  Obviously, there is a great change in technical skills etc., between … Read more

  Stephen Chambers describes his paintings after William Blake as ‘reverential love letters’ to an artist who was the ‘gate-master of the misfits’ club’. While … Read more

  The artist and academic Junko Theresa Mikuriya has created a series of 15 photographs entitled The Sacrilege of Bridges especially for Poetry & Magic. … Read more

  With impressive scholarship, Anita Seppilli explored the relationship of poetry and magic in her classic text Poesia e magia. She argued that magic is … Read more

Anita Schwarzkopf was born in Fiume (Rijeka) on 29 August 1902 and went to school in Trieste. Her father Emilio Schwarzkopf was a timber merchant … Read more