14 April 1947 Dale Pendell, poet, ethnobotanist, alchemist and sage of the poison path, is born. ‘If you let the alembic cool, metaphor becomes superstition.’ #IgnotaDiary

13–15 April Songkran (Thailand). Derived from the Sanskrit word sankranti, meaning astrological passage, this festival marks Thailand’s new year. Throw jugs and buckets of water filled with fragrant herbs, washing away all that is evil. #IgnotaDiary

6 April 1917: Leonora Carrington, artist, surrealist painter, writer and a founding member of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Mexico, is born in Clayton- le-Woods, Lancashire, UK. ‘I’ve always had access to other worlds. We all do, because we dream.’ #IgnotaDiary

4 April 2024: Qingming (China), tomb-sweeping day. Families visit the tombs of their ancestors, clean and sweep tombstones, pray to the ancestors and offer each other remembrances of beloved deceased. #IgnotaDiary

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1 April Veneralia, an ancient Roman celebration of Venus Verticordia (Changer of Hearts) and Fortuna Virilis (Bold Fortune). People seek divine guidance on marriages, romance and sex. #IgnotaDiary

Here are all the poetry books I haven’t shared. I’ve read about half of them. Here’s to the small presses Stanchion Out-Spoken Press Nine Arches Press Seren Broken Sleep Books Penned in the Margins Nine Pens Press Ignota Books 🛸 Carcanet Press Penteract Press Allographic Press

⚵𝙱𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚒⚴ Ignota Books 🛸 Austin Coppock benebell wen You can see how the journal looks week by week in first pic, good for my dreamwork; then there's many different tarot spread ideas, here's one for Aquarius season; on the mood of air - here's the foundations of aeromancy, and Gray Crawford's 2024 delineations by quarter.

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Here's the pocket-sized edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's classic essay from Ignota Books 🛸

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination.

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Pulling the instrument apart ~

Each of the initial works of the GENESIS series is hand drawn in VR, drawing as spatial data as dance as dimensional form. Inspired by my research into organic machines.

The collection will be grown to train the next generation of D.O.U.G._6. 💙

Huw Lemmey teams up with Hildegard of Bingen (died 1179) for a mutant fiction of speculative mysticism from the always intriguing Ignota Books 🛸

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wrote a review of Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros in the current issue of Sound Studies - thanks to the magic publisher Ignota Books 🛸 for this beautiful and timely read doi.org/10.1080/205519…

26 March 2024 Khordad Sal, Zoroaster’s birthday, celebrated worldwide but especially by Indian Parsis. Preparations include house cleaning, decorations with fragrant flowers. #IgnotaDiary ⁠
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March: Jimsonweed, thornapple or datura (datura stramonium) can be sown around this time. Don Juan warns: ‘She is as powerful as the best of allies, but... she distorts men.’
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I can't express how excited I am to share today's conversation with one of my favorite living writers, the extraordinary Bhanu Kapil. With the reissue of the long unavailable Incubation: A Space for Monsters we look across her writing life entire
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Reading Gaia: Filmmaker Josh Appignanesi Josh Appignanesi, molecular biologist Buzz Baum & psychoanalyst Anouchka Grose discuss Gaia theory & activism in this reading group & talk, 12 September Reference Point 180 Strand 

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I thought I’d share some passages from my new book Air Age Blueprint, for those who haven’t read it. In these excerpts, I address the complex dynamics and impure histories at play in the West’s embrace of psychedelics

New arrivals 😊 - thanks to Positionen and Ignota Books 🛸