Leechcraft is a sharing of wisdom and healing, dreams and desires, rooted in myth and ancient folklore. Transformations and dark murmurings, warnings and incantations, rough-woven charms and travellers' tales - an intoxicating brew to be spoken, chanted, whispered and sung. These are poems that will stay with you - gather them carefully and guard them safe as potent spells.

About the Author
DAVID WARD was born in Northampton. He is co-founder of The Windows Project, running creative writing workshops in community venues on Merseyside since 1976 and editor of Smoke magazine. He has toured to Singapore, Hong Kong and Harbin (Northern China) and broadcast on BBC TV and radio. Poems in over 200 magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Review, Abridged, Ambit and Poetry Wales. Collections Tracts and On the Edge of Rain (Headland), Jambo (Riot Stories Ltd and Impact), Inside Pale Eyes (Hawkwood), Visiting Writer-in-Residence Nanyang University, Singapore. Honorary Fellow in Creative Writing, Liverpool Hope University. Writing as David Greygoose: folkloric tales Brunt Boggart (Hawkwood 2015; Pushkin 2018); Mandrake Petals and Scattered Feathers (Hawkwood 2021).

Reviews
"Mesmerising... deeply felt, singing poems. ...";KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND: Gravity for Beginners; "Mysterious and mystical...";NATALIE LINH BOLDERSTON: The Protection of Ghosts;"Concentrated, intense... these poems have the strangest power...";SEAN STREET: Journey into Space;"Like a message from lost Albion!";TIM FREEMAN: Background Noise;"Wraiths in the mist... pinned to the page by acute observations.";FREDA DAVIS: Write Out Loud;"Haunting images... alive with sensory detail and evocative imagery.";TAMIKO DOOLEY Seasons of Love around the Rising Sun



Book Information
ISBN 9781739323950
Author David Ward
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Hawkwood Books
Publisher Hawkwood Books