Thank you Luisa Calè for including Poetry & Magic in your review of Blake exhibitions during 2023 in the Summer 2024 issue of Blake Quarterly!

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