Obsolete Spells Poems & Prose from Victor Neuburg & The Vine Press

Victor Neuburg is most famous for two things: discovering Dylan Thomas, and being the man that Aleister Crowley once turned into a camel. Obsolete Spells offers another side of Neuburg, through his own poems and the strange books of Vine Press, the hand-operated imprint he ran from his West Sussex cottage between 1920 and 1930. Neuburg's youth involved terrifying-yet-farcical years as Crowley's lover, victim, and magickal sidekick. His later period, as editor of the influential "Poet's Corner" column for the Sunday Referee, found him a key figure in London's literary scene. But in between, Neuburg acted as a conduit for bohemian writers, arts luminaries, and the sexually adventurous: Peter Warlock set his words to music, singer Marian Anderson lived in his spare room, and he was a fixture at utopian community, the Sanctuary. Through it all, he turned the handle on the Vine Press: books of nature writing and anonymous song; poems and artwork worthy of The Wicker Man, side-by-side with a book on cricket. Obsolete Spells offers a selection of Neuburg's work and others from Vine Press books-over-the-top hymns to the Old Gods, tales from a utopian landscape, and more, most of which has been out of print for a century.

ISBN:	9781913689261
Publisher:	Strange Attractor Press
Imprint:	Strange Attractor Press
Published date:	15 Jun 2021
DEWEY:	820.800912
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	240
Weight:	496g
Height:	151mm
Width:	213mm
Spine width:	20mm

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