Wort, Issue 2

A journal of grassroots herbalism, printed in Wales, with beautiful pen and ink illustration. Wort is a curated collection of contributions from persons working with plants as medicine in ways that resonate with the long traditions of world-entangled, community-embedded folk herbalism. “For lovers of weeds and wildflowers; for those who honour plants as kin and those working to make change at the root."

This issue published Summer ’24.

Edited by Leo Qawas with Claudia Manchanda. 

Adam Dickson – Dandelion a Deity/Blessed Bramble
Claudia Manchanda – From the River to the Trees
eleni ‘officinalis’ bourou – Bloom a Little Bloom
Katie Hastings, Sinéad Fortune, Palestinian Heirloom Seed Project – Project Focus: Saving Seeds
Louisa Chase – In Collaboration with Woad: An Artist’s Year of Listening
Matilde Wyrdlea – Plant Medicine and the Tarot: Magician-Calamus
Natalie Gubenko – Slavic Oak
Randa Toko – Foraging as Resistance
Salamis Aysegul Sentug Tugyan – Crafting a 19th century Herbalist as a Character in a Novel

Illustration from: Ross Fleming, Maia Magoga and Libby Bove.

Published by Umbel Press
Softcover
94 pages
150 x 210 mm