Carl Abrahamsson

Fenris Wolf release party at Atlantis

September 11, 2016

On Monday September 5th 2016 the legendary book shop Atlantis in London hosted the release evening for the new Fenris Wolf issue. It was, as expected, a very nice soirée filled with new and old acquaintances mingling in utter Gnosis. To not allow the liquid spirits completely take the upper hand, I decided it would be great to let their poetic cousins have their say. Beautiful Vanessa Sinclair read cut up poems from her collections, Zaheer Gulamhusein read his poem from FW8, and I finished by reading Kadmus’ FW8 poem, “A Fragment of Heart”, and my own “As the Wolf lies down to rest”. And people listened! Whereupon the liquid spirits got the upper hand and won after all. I was especially pleased to meet and talk to Timothy d’Arch Smith, whose Books of the Beast and many other writings I devoured as a youngster. Here follow some photographic pieces of evidence that all tell the same story: a good time was had. Thank you everyone present, thank you...

A great Elgaland-Vargaland document!

September 2, 2016

The experiment(s) of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland (KREV) has recently been summed up in a wonderful book called exactly that: The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland. It’s a 300 page monster of an overview of basically all the things that have happened since the creation of the Kingdoms back in 1992. What a long, strange trip it’s been! “With effect from the 14th of March 1992, we are annexing and occupying the following territories: 1. All border frontier areas between all countries on earth, and all areas (up to a width of 10 nautical miles) existing outside all countries’ territorial waters. We designate these territories our physical territory. 2. Mental and perceptive territories such as: the Hypnagogue State (civil), the Escapistic Territory (civil) and the Virtual Room (digital). On the 27th of May 1992 at 12 noon GMT, we proclaimed the state of Elgaland Vargaland.” (Signed by founders/Kings Leif Elggren and CM von Hausswolff) Had this...

Fenris Wolf 8 release evening in London and more news

August 31, 2016

A release evening for The Fenris Wolf 8 will take place at the Atlantis Bookshop in London on Monday, September 5th between 7 and 9 pm. Join Vanessa Sinclair and me for a fun evening of mingling, poetry reading and just generally celebrating the massive contents of The Wolf! See you there! Vanessa Sinclair will present a paper called Third Mind Work and Pandrogeny at the Trans-States conference at Northampton University (September 9th – 10th), and I will be there to promote a magico-anthropological spirit and mingle. Please also check out Vanessa’s and Katelan Foisy’s new page Chaos of the Third Mind! Sub Umbra Alarum Luna will be screened at the Spectacle in New York on September 17th, as part of a program on magical experimental cinema. I will introduce and screen Change Itself – An Art Apart: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge at the Fonomo Festival in Poland on October 20th. The screening will be followed by a Q & A session.

Books you need to get and preferably read too

August 26, 2016

It would be so wonderful to have the time to actually A) read some new books and B) write about them in depth. But until that moment comes, I’ll have to make do with C) a superficial overview. I’m just very happy that there are so many interesting books coming out, and if you hadn’t seen or heard of any of these titles before, then I’ve definitely acquired some good book lover/publisher karma. A.J. Lees: Mentored by a Madman – The William Burroughs Experiment (Notting Hill Editions, 2016) The back side copy text of this book is so to the point I’ll just use that here: “A fascinating personal account by one of the world’s leading neurologists on the profound influence of William Burroughs on his medical career. Lees relates how Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled drug addict, inspired him to discover a ground-breaking treatment for Parkinson’s Disease. Lees journeys to the Amazonian rainforests in search of...