The Cunning Person's Poetry Apothecary

The Cunning people were practitioners of folk medicine, folk magic and divination throughout

Europe from the Middle Ages onwards. Illiterate and impoverished, these folk have vanished into the past, and left few records.

To the modern ear, cunning sounds like a negative attribute, a kind of sneaky intelligence that no one

wants to have. This book is a magic speculation, and a balm, born out of my own cunning: the low, sneaky spit-

in-the-butter kind that has helped me survive to the present day. I hope it speaks to you, and activates your own cunning.