Over the last year, I have been one of a team editing a book that has now been released. The Wanton Green is an exciting collection of essays from (mostly) British pagans exploring their relations to places
From the main Press Release:
From the lost magics and holy waters of London to bleak Staffordshire Moorlands; from childhood adventures in Rochdale to faeries in Devon and Cumbria, a new book, The Wanton Green, offers readers a different perspective on landscape
As our relationship with the world unravels and needs to take new form, or maybe to reconnect with an older pattern, The Wanton Green presents a collection of inspiring, provoking and engaging essays by modern pagans talking about their own deep and passionate relationships with the Earth. With contributions from 20 authors that range from Druids to Heathens, from Chaos Magicians to Witches, Shamans and Voudou Mambo, Wanton Green brings voices from the diverse and growing Pagan community of Britain to the environmental debate and promises food for thought and inspiration for the spirit
Contributors include Emma Restall Orr, Runic John, Robert Wallsi, Jenny Blain, Melissa Harrington, Graham Harvey, Maria van Daalen, Susan Greenwood and Susan Cross
Ordering copies
a) direct from me £ 11.99 a copy, + £2.00 P&P for first copy and £1 per copy after that (cheques to Creeping Toad, or I can invoice you – address: 51-d West Rd, Buxton, SK17 6HQ
b) from Mandrake, the publishers
c) through a local bookshop or on-line store
Details
The Wanton Green:
contemporary pagan writings on place
editors: G MacLellan and S Cross
Mandrake Books, Oxford, 2011
ISBN: 978 1 906958 29 9
Chapters and sections include
Personal journeys, intimate connections
Fumbling in the landscape, Runic John
Finding the space, finding the words, Rufus Harrington
Stone in my bones, Sarah Males
A Heathen in place: working with Mugwort, Robert Wallis
By river, well and sea
Wild, wild water, Lou Hart
Facing the waves, Gordon MacLellan
The dragon waters of place: a journey to the source, Susan Greenwood
Exploring – mud on your boots, mud on your hands
Catching the Rainbow Lizard, Maria van Daalen
The rite to roam, Julian Vayne
Places of Power Jan Fries
Art is natural magic, Greg Humphries
Step back and consider
Pagan Ecology: on our perception of nature, ancestry and home, Emma Restall Orr
We have no imagination, Susan Cross
Crossroads of perception, Shani Oates
Where are the wild places
Devon, Faeries and Me, Woody Fox
Lud’s Church, Gordon MacLellan
Places of spirit and spirits of place: of Fairy and other folk, and my Cumbrian bones. Melissa Harrington
A life in the woods: protest site paganism, Adrian Harris
We first met in the north, Barry Patterson
The king who sites upon the water, Barry Patterson
The Ballad of the Tyne Plover, Barry Patterson
Urban wildness
Museum or Mausoleum – A Pagan at play in King Solomon’s House , Mogg Morgan
Hills of the ancestors, townscapes of artisans, Jenny Blain
Smoke and mirrors, Stephen Grasso
America, Maria van Daalen
Standing at the crossroads: A beginning at the end?
various authors