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Spell-poems take us into a realm where words can influence the universe. Spells brings together over forty contemporary voices exploring the territory where justice, selfhood and the imagination meet the transformative power of the occult. These poems unmake the world around them so that it might be remade anew. Contributors include: Kaveh Akbar, Rachael Allen, Nuar Alsadir, Khairani Barokka, Emily Berry, A.K. Blakemore, Jen Calleja, Anthony V. Capildeo, Elinor Cleghorn, CAConrad, Nia Davies, Paige Emery, Livia Franchini, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Will Harris, Caspar Heinemann, Lucy Ives, Rebecca May Johnson, Bhanu Kapil, Amy Key, Daisy Lafarge, Dorothea Lasky, Francesca Lisette, Canisia Lubrin, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Lucy Mercer, Hoa Nguyen, Precious Okoyomon, Rebecca Perry, Nat Raha, Nisha Ramayya, Ariana Reines, Sophie Robinson, Erica Scourti, Sarah Shin, Himali Singh Soin, Tai Shani, Rebecca Tamás, Bones Tan Jones, Dolly Turing, Jane Yeh, Flora Yin Wong

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""Revives the ancient notion of poetry s transformative power to summon up some of the most exciting poets experimenting with English now."" -Sunday Times, Best Books of 2018 ""Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry, reminds us of the power of words to enchant, recast and to bewitch."" -The Guardian, Best Books of 2018

Revives the ancient notion of poetry s transformative power to summon up some of the most exciting poets experimenting with English now. --Sunday Times, Best Books of 2018 Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry, reminds us of the power of words to enchant, recast and to bewitch. --The Guardian, Best Books of 2018

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Sarah Shn s a pulsher and curator. She s the creator of New Suns: A Femnst Lterary Festval, and s co-founder and drector of Slver Press. Rebecca Tam¡s is a poet, nonfiction writer and critic. Her poetry pamphlet Savage was published by Clinic Press in 2017, and her first collection of poetry, WITCH was published in 2019 by Penned in the Margins, a book of feminist poetics, centering feminist perspectives on occult experience, and unruly female identified bodies. So Mayer is the author of Truth & Dare, a collection of speculative fiction and non-fiction, and the essay-length book on queer art, A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing.

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