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Wort #3
Wort #3
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 third issue of Wort contains the following features…
The Forager, a poem by Jahia LaSangoma: Survival, seasons change, release and transformation among the herbs of Northern Spain.
Project Focus: Herbalista, by LornaMauney-Brodek: Pour a cup of tea and join us as we build community through herbalism.
Plant Medicine and the Tarot: High Priestexx / Viola, by Matilde Wyrdlea with Martin Baxter: The third in a series looking at tarot and plant medicine as allies to psycho-emotional health and exploring tarot through a trauma-aware lens.
viriditas calling, by llewyn máire: A poem and accompanying glossary exploring the nature of boundaries in relation to a trauma-informed personal history. This piece is also an invocation of the author’s deepening relationship with the land, language and plant kin of Ireland.
The Flowering, The Offering and the Sting of the Divine, by Harul Vinay: Formative to Western Himalayan society and culture is the ancient interplay between the forest and the village, the plant and human realms. This article explores this relationship in its mundane and sacred dimensions through the folklore and traditions of three traditional herbs: the Buraans, the Paaja, and the Bichu Booti.
A Fairy Tale, by Philippa Swann: An errant forage into the mysterious world of Gaelic plant names, lost herbal knowledge, and Highland folk tales, precipitated by a chance encounter with the irresistibly named Fairy Flax. The story of this tiny wildflower invites a timely remembering of the close relationship the people of the Scottish Highlands once had with this landscape and flora.
Four Poems Carrying Ways to Remember, by Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson: These four poems tap into the wellspring of wisdom found in the cataclysmic ruptures of ancestral heart-break ::: Poems that journeyed me through personal and collective stories of deep love, grief, connection and belonging with the land ::: Here, I honour the power of breath as anchor, as accomplice, as portal ::: I honour my mother and her child-relationship to plant life growing up in Xaymaca (Jamaica) ::: I honour what it means to be ‘well’ in this lifetime ::: fi wi
Garden Loops: The Ruderal Garden: The Ruderal Garden is an experimental garden started in late spring 2024 by the art and architecture collective Garden Loops (Alexandra Papademetriou, Poppy Bell, Natalie Blom and Mercè Torres) in collaboration with Färgfabriken Konsthall. Garden Loops is one gardener and shares this role with the birds, insects, animals and plants already here in Lövholmen, Stockholm.
…with illustrations throughout by Ross Fleming and contributing artists Libby Bove, Harul Vinay, and Denise Conroy, mostly in black-and-white with occasional splashes of color.
The Peculiar Parish Bookshop is proud and excited to share this third issue of Wort with you.
Cover illustration by Ross Fleming. Published by Wort (Spring 2025). A new pamphlet in perfect condition. First printing.
96-page perfectbound pamphlet, illustrated throughout.
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 third issue of Wort contains the following features…
The Forager, a poem by Jahia LaSangoma: Survival, seasons change, release and transformation among the herbs of Northern Spain.
Project Focus: Herbalista, by LornaMauney-Brodek: Pour a cup of tea and join us as we build community through herbalism.
Plant Medicine and the Tarot: High Priestexx / Viola, by Matilde Wyrdlea with Martin Baxter: The third in a series looking at tarot and plant medicine as allies to psycho-emotional health and exploring tarot through a trauma-aware lens.
viriditas calling, by llewyn máire: A poem and accompanying glossary exploring the nature of boundaries in relation to a trauma-informed personal history. This piece is also an invocation of the author’s deepening relationship with the land, language and plant kin of Ireland.
The Flowering, The Offering and the Sting of the Divine, by Harul Vinay: Formative to Western Himalayan society and culture is the ancient interplay between the forest and the village, the plant and human realms. This article explores this relationship in its mundane and sacred dimensions through the folklore and traditions of three traditional herbs: the Buraans, the Paaja, and the Bichu Booti.
A Fairy Tale, by Philippa Swann: An errant forage into the mysterious world of Gaelic plant names, lost herbal knowledge, and Highland folk tales, precipitated by a chance encounter with the irresistibly named Fairy Flax. The story of this tiny wildflower invites a timely remembering of the close relationship the people of the Scottish Highlands once had with this landscape and flora.
Four Poems Carrying Ways to Remember, by Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson: These four poems tap into the wellspring of wisdom found in the cataclysmic ruptures of ancestral heart-break ::: Poems that journeyed me through personal and collective stories of deep love, grief, connection and belonging with the land ::: Here, I honour the power of breath as anchor, as accomplice, as portal ::: I honour my mother and her child-relationship to plant life growing up in Xaymaca (Jamaica) ::: I honour what it means to be ‘well’ in this lifetime ::: fi wi
Garden Loops: The Ruderal Garden: The Ruderal Garden is an experimental garden started in late spring 2024 by the art and architecture collective Garden Loops (Alexandra Papademetriou, Poppy Bell, Natalie Blom and Mercè Torres) in collaboration with Färgfabriken Konsthall. Garden Loops is one gardener and shares this role with the birds, insects, animals and plants already here in Lövholmen, Stockholm.
…with illustrations throughout by Ross Fleming and contributing artists Libby Bove, Harul Vinay, and Denise Conroy, mostly in black-and-white with occasional splashes of color.
The Peculiar Parish Bookshop is proud and excited to share this third issue of Wort with you.
Cover illustration by Ross Fleming. Published by Wort (Spring 2025). A new pamphlet in perfect condition. First printing.
96-page perfectbound pamphlet, illustrated throughout.
