Books Landscape Magic

Callum James: poet, artist & bookseller.

📖 'The Paths of the Dead' (Broken Sleep Books)
📖 The Fisher King (Dec. '27)

Queer. Story. Landscape. Magic.

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My second book, The Fisher King, will be published by @brokensleep at the end of next year. Its an intensely personal book that mediates a psychological & spiritual journey of queer aging through the myth of the Fisher King. Expect Fox, Heron, Curlew, Tom O'Bedlam & witchcraft

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@TheWavesBroke @brokensleep In the slow paths of getting things written and published, actually most of what appears in the upcoming book was actually written in 2025.

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My second book, The Fisher King, will be published by @brokensleep at the end of next year. Its an intensely personal book that mediates a psychological & spiritual journey of queer aging through the myth of the Fisher King. Expect Fox, Heron, Curlew, Tom O'Bedlam & witchcraft

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The way into the woods...

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Puddle windows

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Visit to the Devils Chapel in the Forest of Dean. An area of limestone formations of deep gullies and caves known as Scowles. Deeply atmospheric.

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@MoffStarbuck Not yet!

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The Staunton Stone known in local lore as the Bleeding Stone. Prick it with a pin at midnight and it will bleed.

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From neolithic standing stones to graffitied containers via strange brick walls, it was a day of finding human constructions in the forest...

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My publisher's annual fundraiser is up! Please consider a contribution if you can, rewards at every level...

Help Broken Sleep Books Publish New Poetry in 2027 https://t.co/PfzWdGSOmq

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Been engaged in a 'poem a day' challenge with friends. A short poem every day with no expectation of great literature. It helps to apply magical/symbolic thinking to the thoughts, events, conversations and objects of what might otherwise seem a mundane day. Here are a few.

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An autumn shine and shore and shrine.

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Amazing and inspiring evening with David Southall at Treadwells tonight talking about @HooklandGuide and its motto: Re-enchantment is Resistance.

There are still good people in the world.

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@antinousgaygod Thank you. It does have that look!

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Found this holed piece of wood on the shore exactly a year ago today on my birthday and have worn it as a talisman for the year. Now I have to consider what to do with it.

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Seed time

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@rchitectopteryx It certainly has that vibe!

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Snowshill Manor. Mad collector and cosplayer Charles Paget Wade filled a manor house with his collection and lived himself in a cottage next door.

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'The Empty Boat is Flooded with Moonlight'
By Dan Hillier

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@th3jonesboy He is actually on loan to the exhibition from an antique dealer

Rare Ancient British Celtic Limestone Bust of a Radiate Deity ‘Sol Invicta’ | Finch & Co https://t.co/1PE9pJ9Amf

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Sol Invictus, The Unconquered Sun. A a Romano-Celtic sun deity from the 1st cent BC to AD and found in Armagh. On display in the Sun and Moon exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery.