Posts Tagged ‘voodoo’
NOLA Nocturnal is a celebration of New Orleans, of the French Quarter, with its historic bars and twilight mysteries, as well as the bayous and swamps connected to its Voodoo heritage. Sean Woodward has visited the city many times and in 2022 wrote the majority of this 40-poem collection whilst residing in the French Quarter. […]
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The subject of Sean Woodward’s Erzulie of the Deep should not be confused with her sister Loa, Sirene. In this devotional booklet we follow the story of a young boy who is wronged by his family, offered up for adoption but who finally sees justice. These are themes which are dear to Erzulie, for she is a […]
Read MoreTaking a selection of headlines cut from newspapers and magazines I was immediately drawn to the two words that inspired this: VOODOO MAN I met him at the crossroads. It was dark, almost as black as his own tattered skin. The rain had just finished, exhausted in its efforts to fall and leaving a dry […]
Read MoreNew Year, new deadlines! Plenty of catching up on the writing schedule! The Photograph For thirty years I’ve carried the image in a magnetically clamped locket. Originally there were two photographs, but the second of the pair had an allure that would not leave me. Her face within that brass oval was not harsh or […]
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