PRE-ORDER: A Walking Flame

Selected Magical Writings of Ithell Colquhoun

Edited by Amy Hale

Hello There,

We're beyond delighted to announce that pre-orders are now open for the long-anticipated A Walking Flame: Selected Magical Writings of Ithell Colquhoun, edited by the wonderful folklorist and anthropologist Amy Hale.

We published Amy's celebrated biography of Colquhoun, Genius of the Fern Loved Gully, back in 2020, and are huge fans of her writings on magic, folklore, and their political undercurrents (which you can check out via her comprehensive website and medium page). So it's an absolute pleasure to be able to publish this carefully edited anthology which includes a substantial essay on Colquhoun's magical writings and enlightening introductions to each of the selected pieces.

Pre-Order Your Copy Here!

A Walking Flame will be published as a special edition deluxe hardback limited to 300 copies, and a standard edition paperback, and will be shipping late June (if not before).

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All the best, and thanks for your continued support,

Jamie, Mark & Rebecca

A Walking Flame
Selected Magical Writings of Ithell Colquhoun
Edited by Amy Hale

9781913689773
Paperback / Hardback
140mm x 210mm
336pp
16pp colour section

Available as special edition hardback limited to 300 copies and a standard paperback

£25 / £35

Writer, artist, and wilfully dissident surrealist Ithell Colquhoun (1906–1988) invested her unique works with magical learning, esoteric lore, and a palpable sense of mystery. Despite having published widely on esoteric and occult topics during her lifetime, Colquhoun was never to produce a single book-length edition of her magical writings. As a result, many of her essays were lost or neglected.

Edited by writer, folklorist and anthropologist Amy Hale, A Walking Flame: Selected Magical Writings Of Ithell Colquhoun gathers nearly 40 texts by this unique artist and magical practitioner, and displays cohesively, and for the first time, the impressive breadth of Colquhoun's magical interests and expertise, and how these came to inform her singular works. Ranging from early encounters with the Kabbalah and esoteric colour theory, to Celtic mysticism and alchemy, A Walking Flame promises to shed a necessary light on an integral body of Colquhoun's thought that has remained occluded for too long.