Conjurors: Poems by Julian Orde sonnets of migrations across oceans and

of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past

In luminous language her poems explore how people

and anarchic

invention and wit (here are elegies

And ever-present through the collection is Athens – the city the poet once turned his back on at eighteen but has come to love again

Conjurors: Poems by Julian Orde sonnets of migrations across oceans andIn Conjurors, a major poet is revealed for the first time. Julian Orde (191774) published only in magazines during her lifetime. She was a key figure in the Carcanet anthology of the mid century, Apocalypse (2020), but this is her first collection, presenting more than sixty poems, with a biographical and critical introduction. Ordes poetry was selected for reading and discussion during the Zoom launch of Apocalypse by Simon Armitage and has attracted