Edited by Leo Qawas

Wort is a new independent journal of grassroots and radical herbalism. Based in Wales, Wort publishes contributions from lay practitioners alongside professionally qualified herbalists in recognition of the richness of folk traditions and the multiple kinds of knowledge they hold.

“Wort” is an old word for a plant and appears in the common names of many herbs. It comes from the Old English “wyrt” and derives from the same Proto-Indo-European origin-word as “radical,” “radicle,” and “root.” This new journal brings together all of these different meanings.

Following a welcoming editorial, this second issue of Wort contains the following features…

• Project Focus: Saving Seeds, essays by Katie Hastings, Sinéad Fortune, Leo Qawas, and Claudia Manchada

• Dandelion a Deity and Blessed Bramble, poetry by Adam Dickson

• From the River to the Trees, by Claudia Manchada

• Bloom a Little Bloom: Reflections of Spring, Reflecting on Myths, Connecting with Plants, poetry by Eleni “Officinalis” Bourou

• Foraging as Resistance, by Randa Toko

• In Collaboration with Woad: An Artist’s Year of Listening with Isatis tinctoria, by Louisa Chase

• Plant Medicine and the Tarot: Magician/Calamus, written by Matilde Wyrdlea, with illustration by Libby Bove

• Crafting a 19th-Century Cypriot Herbalist as a Character in a Novel, by Salamis Aysegul Sentug Tugyan

• Slavic Oak, by Natalie Gubenko

…with illustrations throughout by Ross Fleming and the contributing artists, mostly in black-and-white with occasional splashes of color.

The Peculiar Parish Bookshop is proud and excited to share this second issue of Wort with you.

Cover illustration by Ross Fleming. Published by Wort (Summer 2024). A new pamphlet in perfect condition. First printing.

96-page perfectbound pamphlet, illustrated throughout.