Hummadruz

Hummadruz brings together Hilary Llewellyn-Williams’s first two collections, the long-absent The Tree Calendar (1987) and Book of Shadows (1990). The former includes her reputation-making title sequence of poems reflecting on the Celtic calendar, in which each month is represented by a tree.
Book of Shadows includes a group of poems inspired by Giordano Bruno, Renaissance philosopher, monk, magician and poet, who was burned at the stake for heresy. These two sequences lie at the heart of Llewellyn-Williams’s poetry, standing as it does at the interface of nature, mythology, contemporary science and mysticism.