A Mother's Anger

Dawn Chorus Berwick, Sussex

A poem on the healing walk for Elizabeth Bradwell, 1645, Great Yarmouth

Familiars.mp3

In 1419, Queen Joan of Navarre was imprisoned for alleged witchcraft, plotting to kill King Henry V, within the Keep of Pevensey Castle.
Listen now to her story under seige.

This oral story was recorded live in the damp dungeon at Pevensey.

Joan of Navarre

This poem accompanies the Medicine Spoon Memorial embroidery to remember Margaret Butter, a victim of the Scottish Witch Trials of 1661. A great miscarriage of justice in Prestonpans. You can read my whole story here: https://www.runesnroses.com/news/absolutepardon

Butter Witch

Plunge

This poem came out of a chance encounter with a mummifed hare hanging from a tree on New Year's Day in 2021. Such a strange, haunting thing to find on a cold winter's day.

Hare

A translation of a 13th Century courtly love poem from region of the Cathars.

Serena Constance