Conjurors: Poems by Julian Orde sonnets ]' But that's just short

]' But that's just short of the half of it

invention and wit (here are elegies

and anarchic

MacGillivray has found the poetics of an abandoned mind

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 ]' But that's just shortIn 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