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Hello, dear listener. Today we celebrate the release of the ace Folk-Horror Revival<\/em> book, Corpse Roads<\/strong><\/span><\/em>. Firstly because it’s an amazing 500 plus pages of poetic and photographic goodness; secondly because we’re interested in corpse roads, and thirdly, because it’s what we do. We even have some of the poetry from within to share with you.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Andy Paciorek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Revival’s first book, Field Studies<\/em>, was one of those great dip-into books with everything you needed to know about Folk-Horror \u2013 its roots, ancient lore and its use in media and contemporary works. This new book focuses on poetry, with numerous photographic illustrations to intensify the feel. We don’t want to spoil it, so what we’ve done, with the publisher’s permission, is to show you some shots of the book to give you the overall feel, and reprinted eight poems from within, classic and contemporary, which hint at why you might want to get your own copy.<\/p>\n

The term ‘corpse road’ always triggers two vaguely connected thoughts for us. One is the Lyke Wake Dirge<\/em>, which we’ll mention more in a later post (we grew up by the North York Moors).<\/p>\n

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urra moor, c. mick garratt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The other is the film adaptation of one of Clive Barker’s<\/strong> short stories, Book of Blood<\/em> (2009). The latter is because of a particularly evocative refrain used in the film:<\/p>\n

‘The dead have highways. Highways that lead to intersections, and intersections that spill into our world. And if you find yourself at one of those intersections, you should stop and you should listen, because the dead have stories to tell.’<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There are many such stories, in verse form, in the tome in question, so here we go. ALL IMAGES ARE CLICKABLE FOR MUCH LARGER VERSIONS. <\/strong>Please note that 100% of sales profits from this book are charitably donated to The Wildlife Trusts.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Dan Hunt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CORPSE ROADS<\/h1>\n

From the introduction:<\/p>\n

‘Long before our first book, Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies, was<\/em>
\n completed, the eyes of our minds were looking further down the path, gazing into the gathering mist, trying to define shapes from the shadows, wondering, ever wondering at further possible tomes to come.<\/em><\/p>\n

‘There were many other lonely paths, wooded avenues and wind-beaten causeways to explore. There were songs to be sung, stories to be told, flickering images to be seen, and our intention holds fast that in the time that will come all too fast, we will mark mention of these in ink upon paper.<\/em><\/p>\n

‘In traversing the borderlands between this and other worlds, other murmurs fell upon our senses, of that liminal terrain that lies between tracks and tales, between stories and song ~ the world of poetry.<\/em><\/p>\n

‘So in order to collect the lyrical words of the dead, down Corpse Roads we trod, taking note of the territory we passed through, for it is the landscape that fed the inspiration of these past word-smiths.’<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Emily Jones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The book is divided between sections such as Poetry of the Dead, Poetry of War<\/em> and Poetry of the Living<\/em>, with separate chapters being given to particular poets who have contributed.<\/p>\n

Ancestors<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Amerind around the eyes
\nCheekbones which speak to the past,
\nWhen I was wild.
\nMy soul still knows
\nIn my heart beats an animal;
\nA feral beast
\nAnd an eagle flying free.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Erin Sorrey<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Hugh Williams + \u00a9 Ellen Rogers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speak of the North: A Lonely Moor<\/h3>\n

Speak of the North!
\nA lonely moor
\nSilent and dark and tractless swells,
\nThe waves of some wild streamlet pour
\nHurriedly through its ferny dells.
\nProfoundly still the twilight air,
\nLifeless the landscape; so we deem
\nTill like a phantom gliding near
\nA stag bends down to drink the stream.
\nAnd far away a mountain zone,
\nA cold, white waste of snow-drifts lies,
\nAnd one star, large and soft and lone,
\nSilently lights the unclouded skies.<\/p>\n

by Charlotte Bront\u00eb<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Erin Sorrey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Garden<\/h3>\n

There’s an ancient, ancient garden that I see sometimes in dreams,
\nWhere the very Maytime sunlight plays and glows with spectral gleams;
\nWhere the gaudy-tinted blossoms seem to wither into grey,
\nAnd the crumbling walls and pillars waken thoughts of yesterday.
\nThere are vines in nooks and crannies, and there’s moss about the pool,
\nAnd the tangled weedy thicket chokes the arbour dark and cool:
\nIn the silent sunken pathways springs a herbage sparse and spare,
\nWhere the musty scent of dead things dulls the fragrance of the air.
\nThere is not a living creature in the lonely space arouna,
\nAnd the hedge-encompass’d quiet never echoes to a sound.
\nAs I walk, and wait, and listen, I will often seek to find
\nWhen it was I knew that garden in an age long left behind;
\nI will oft conjure a vision of a day that is no more,
\nAs I gaze upon the grey, grey scenes I feel I knew before.
\nThen a sadness settles o’er me, and a tremor seems to start –
\nFor I know the flow’rs are shrivell’d hopes – the garden is my heart.<\/p>\n

by H. P. Lovecraft<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Andy Paciorek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All Nature has a Feeling<\/h3>\n

All nature has a feeling: woods, fields, brooks
\nAre life eternal: and in silence they
\nSpeak happiness beyond the reach of books;
\nThere’s nothing mortal in them; their decay
\nIs the green life of change; to pass away
\nAnd come again in blooms revivified.
\nIts birth was heaven, eternal in its stay,
\nAnd with the sun and moon shall still abide
\nBeneath their day and night and heaven wide.<\/p>\n

by John Clare (1793 \u2013 1864)<\/em><\/p>\n

At Crossroads<\/h3>\n

Bury the head in the east road, the body in the west.
\nStuff the mouth with garlic.
\nTake the wrong path, lose your life.
\nChoose: Odin, Mercury, Hecate, Mephistopheles.
\nOedipus met his destiny here.
\nFaust summoned his.
\nNothing confuses a devil like choices.
\nKnow that you can save your soul if you are cunning.
\nSome gathered in the moonlight, sacred grounds.
\nOthers built gallows, dug graves.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Sandra Moore Colman<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Erin Sorrey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dream Stag<\/h3>\n

And I dreamed of a deep snowed field, and a black stag,
\nAnd a man that was almost me, hunted with a black spear,
\nSnowfall unmaking footprints, as shadow hunted shadow,
\nEach waiting for the other to fall prey to hungers hollow.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Rich Blackett<\/em><\/p>\n

Wishbones<\/h3>\n

She lays out wishbones, boiled and polished,
\nor painted gold with leaf-green ribbons
\nat each empty sitting. Soon they will snap
\nlike twigs, like innocence, teaching the power
\nof will, and dominion over bird and beast,
\na feast for winter.
\nUpstairs, the tooth fairy,
\nblack-mouthed at the window, sucks dreams
\nscented with violets and mothballs from a room
\nbare of all but stripped beds and damp pillowcases.
\nAnd outside, splints pitch from coarse loam,
\ncatching pale moonlight. Sleep, little one, sleep:
\nthe night is big and lonely, your garden\u2019s growing
\npale.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Oz Hardwick<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Erin Sorrey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mycelium<\/h3>\n

I have kissed corpses,
\nat the breaking of day,
\nhalf buried in bushes,
\nflesh rotting away.
\nFor the greener the moss,
\nthe greater my hunger,
\nwhere there’s well nourished soil,
\nthe lost are there under.
\nI feed on the remnants,of life gone before,
\ncrawling through forests,
\nfeasting on gore.
\nA tree or a rambler,
\njust something past living,
\njoin the circle of life,
\ntheir goodness they’re giving.
\nSo pluck my fruit from me,
\nand devour with knives,
\nthe recycled bodies,
\nof all the lost lives.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Katrinia Rindsberg<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Erin Sorrey + \u00a9 Cobweb Mehers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Special thanks to Andy Paciorek and Folk-Horror Revival for letting us have full access to the book.<\/p>\n

(We have a number of Folk-Horror related interviews on the site which might also interest you, including a huge two-parter with artist, writer and editor <\/em>Andy Paciorek<\/strong>, plus artist <\/em>Cobweb Mehers<\/strong>, writer\/photographer<\/em> David Senior<\/strong> and artist <\/em>Paul Watson<\/strong>. You can start here: folk horror interviews<\/a> or click <\/em>Folk Horror<\/span> in the tag cloud, left)<\/em><\/p>\n

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That’s us done for today. You may notice that we now have a separate section for Occult Detective Quarterly<\/span> news (top right) – click the text or the image up there to find out more. – and subscribe if you want to be kept up to date. See you again soon, we hope…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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