OBSOLETE SPELLS & NEON HIEROGLYPHS:
31 May at the Barbican Centre, London

There's still chance to pick up tickets for tomorrow's London event, an evening of music, magic, mushrooms and madness - mmmm - at the Barbican Centre on 31 May. We'll be celebrating the launch of two new titles, City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley, by Phil Baker, and Obsolete Spells: Poems and Prose from Victor Neuburg and The Vine Press, edited by Justin Hopper, and previewing Strange Attractor Journal Five and Tai Shani's The Neon Hieroglyph.  

From the Barbican web site: 

"Join Strange Attractor Press as we celebrate their mission to produce ‘popular books on unpopular culture’ and peer into their world of folklore, counterculture and high weirdness."

For 20 years, Strange Attractor has produced remarkable, beautifully-designed, deeply-informed books from its small studio in East London. For the first event in The Edge of the Centre series we’re staging a programme of readings and performances from new and forthcoming Strange Attractor publications. 

See Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani deliver a performance reading from her new book, The Neon Hieroglyph. Writer and BFI curator William Fowler shares the strange tale of painter, decorator and mystic Joseph Dehavilland, who created a sensation when he was crucified on Hampstead Heath in the 1960s. Historian Phil Baker explores Victorian and Edwardian London through the eyes of occultist Aleister Crowley; while Justin Hopper and musician Sharron Kraus will discuss mystic and poet Victor Neuburg and perform his poems, set to music, with visuals by Wendy Pye."

JOIN US!

Tickets are £12 and entry includes a free chapbook of texts and ephemera available only on the night - available here:

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2022/event/an-evening-with-strange-attractor

Books will be available and authors there to sign them!