Three Books from Lorna Smithers
Gods&Radicals Press is thrilled to announce that we are re-releasing three recently out-of-print books by poet and Awenydd Lorna Smithers: Enchanting The Shadowlands, The Broken Cauldron, and Gatherer of Souls through our new mystic imprint, Ritona.
Enchanting the Shadowlands
Few of her poems do what you think they’ll do; none of the paths she leads you down go where you expect, and each time you’re left a little breathless, a little surprised at yourself, and looking around for the guide you thought you were following." ( From Rhyd Wildermuth's review )
Gods&Radicals Press, through our new poetry and mystic imprint Ritona, is pleased to release a new edition of Lorna Smithers' first collection of poetic works, Enchanting The Shadowlands. Poems and short stories gathered from the local landscape in response to an imperative from Gwyn ap Nudd, Enchanting The Shadowlands does precisely what its title suggests.
Originally released in 2015, this edition features updated layout and cover design, as well as an introduction from Rhyd Wildermuth.
The Broken Cauldron
“What lies in the cauldron now you have done away with the knowledge of wise women? Split the witches in half? Killed the giants? Driven to the seas the most ancient of boars? You are on the wrong quest, looking for the wrong grail, the cure-all that does not exist.”
First published in 2016, Lorna Smithers’ second collection of mystical and mythic poetry and prose, The Broken Cauldron is now in print again.
At the centre of ancient British mythology stands the cauldron; a symbol of inspiration, wisdom, rebirth, the womb of Ceridwen, Old Mother Universe. What happens when it lies shattered, the universe fragmented, the world out of kilter?
First published in 2018, Gods&Radicals Press is thrilled to bring The Broken Cauldron back into print through our imprint Ritona. Read Rhyd Wildermuth's review of The Broken Cauldron here.
Gatherer of Souls
Originally printed in 2018 and out of print, this third collection of prose and poems by awenydd Lorna Smithers lures the reader into the mist-veiled forests of time to meet Gwyn Ap Nudd.
'“Chasing the chaser into his myths, hunting with the hunter into the place from which dreams and reality are both born, Lorna leads the reader into the wet caverns below the coal mines, across the ice fields long-since melted into sea, into a time long before witch-blood and wolf-blood could ever be stolen to build Empire.
As with her other books (Enchanting the Shadowlands and The Broken Cauldron), Gatherer of Souls seems at first to be an innocuous collection of prose and poems. Part of Lorna’s particular magic (and her path as an awenydd), however, is to lull the reader into a serene sense of wonder and familiarity before moving the earth beneath their feet. Like walking through a forest shrouded in mist, her narrative voice feels safe, close, quiet, but veils from your sight until it is time the unearthly truths she wants to show you.”
—Rhyd Wildermuth
Each book will re-release together on 1 April 2021 and retail for 15 US. Before that date, individual titles can be purchased for 12.50 US or all three titles for 30 US.
To order any of these titles, see below. Select the Author package in any of the three links if you would like to purchase all three titles in advance at this reduced price.