Spectral Realms No. 2

This second issue of <i>Spectral Realms</i> Hippocampus Press's acclaimed journal of weird poetry features all-original poems--sonnets ballads vibrant free-verse lyrics and much else--from such leading writers as John Shirley William F. Nolan Wade German Gemma Files Ann Schwader W. H. Pugmire and many others. It leads off with a lengthy poem by Donald Sidney-Fryer one of the pillars of the weird poetry movement for the last half-century or more.<i>Spectral Realms</i> is devoted to the study and analysis of weird poetry as much as it is a showcase for the poetry itself. Accordingly this issue features Part 1 of Leigh Blackmore's detailed examination of the verse of Leah Bodine Drake whose <i>A Hornbook for Witches</i> is one of the rarest of books published by Arkham House. The issue also contains incisive reviews of recent books of poetry by Sunni K Brock.With its generous sampling of poetry both old and new its articles and reviews and its elegant and tasteful design <i>Spectral Realms</i> is the ideal showcase for the renaissance of weird poetry now underway.