Almanacs

Almanacs: a mythic scrapbook, bag of cats, a one-man band...Jen Hadfield''s Almanacs is concerned with lists, rules and archetypes and what they don''t account for. It takes as its subjects the Tarot, the lore of Full Moons, weather myths and travellers'' tales. The book''s central sequence, Lorelei''s Lore, is a road movie in poems, set in the north of Scotland: Ultima Thule, hijacked by elusive ...