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Shadow Worlds
Shadow Worlds: A History of the Occult and Esoteric in New Zealand by Andrew Paul Wood. MUP (2023). RRP: $55.00. PB, 424pp. ISBN: 9781991016379. Reviewed by Angus Smith. ‘It all distils to a yearning for spiritual experience.’ To the layperson, attempting merely to define the terms ‘occult’ and ‘esoteric’ seems an obscure task, breaching a…
The old man and the tree
It was a different story last night, driving homethrough the jewelled nightscape of the city, branches spangled across the back window,but morning is monochrome: silvered stumps splayedagainst an absent sky, limbs truncated, lopped offat the wrist; a torso stripped by the sure swipeof secateurs. The old man sighs. Hard to equate this petrified presence,these blanched discs…