{"product_id":"wort-issue-three","title":"Wort Issue Three","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ccode\u003e\u003c\/code\u003eIssue Three, Spring 2025.\u003cbr\u003eISSN: 2976-9744 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJahia LaSangoma – Poem: The Forager\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoem: Survival, seasons change, release and transformation among the herbs of Northern Spain.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLorna Mauney-Brodek – Project Focus: Herbalista \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePour a cup of tea and join us as we build community through herbalism! Let’s do some herbwork together… \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMatilde Wyrdlea with Martin Baxter – Plant Medicine and the Tarot: High Priestexx-Viola\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe third in a series looking at Tarot and Plant Medicine as allies to psycho- emotional health and exploring tarot through a trauma-aware lens. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ellewyn máire – viriditas calling \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA 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. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHarul Vinay – The Flowering, The Offering and the Sting of the Divine \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFormative 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. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilippa Swann – A Fairy Tale \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn 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. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson – Four Poems Carrying Ways to Remember\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThese 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\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGarden Loops – The Ruderal Garden \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ruderal Garden is an experimental garden, started in late spring 2024 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. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e. Ross Fleming (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.henstongue.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehenstongue.com\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e. Libby Bove (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/libbybove.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elibbybove.com\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e. Harul Vinay (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/menelvegor.illustrations\"\u003emenelvegor illustrations\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e. Denise Conroy (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.votiveillustration.ie\/\"\u003evotiveillustration.ie\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52322914959694,"sku":"","price":13.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/Wort-3-Colour-Cover-for-Web.jpg?v=1742648540","url":"https:\/\/eastbristolbooks.pro\/products\/wort-issue-three","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}