The Anther's Fire (Autumn Richardson)

Hypericum Edition of 72

 

Released to honour the Winter Solstice, and the Great Alignment of Saturn and Jupiter, The Anther’s Fire is printed on cotton bookwove papers, thread-sewn, and is enclosed within a textured loose cover in saffron, with a debossed sigil.

'I offer my eyes that you may see

when will you weary of profanity
and recognise breath within bark

pulse within stone

the anther's fire?'

 

The Anther's Fire is a stark and powerful new poem by Autumn Richardson, and the first in a new series of beautiful threadsewn pamphlets from Corbel Stone Press. Continuing her exploration of metempsychosis begun in Ajar To The Night, the poem is a meditation on the endless return of the soul to the sensate and sentient world — its journey through constellations, oceans, roots, flowers and 'the path of fires'.