Conjurors: Poems

A major poet revealed for the first time: Julian Orde's lost poems of love, war, and surreal landscapes. Julian Orde (1917–74), a friend of Stevie Smith and intimate of Dylan Thomas, published only in magazines during her lifetime. Now, her substantial and unexpected poems come alive, showcasing her evolving worlds and changing landscapes.

Experience Orde's lyrical surrealism, prophetic and charged: 'The speckled water rippled into minnows,/Of worms and turf smelt all the fish pale morning.....