New Arcana by Jessica Traynor PRE-ORDER Mike Munford pieced together with a clarity

pieced together with a clarity that burns and shines

A libretto commissioned by Italian composer Lucia Ronchetti follows

’ This beguiling

” The poems begin to discover and enact the spells cast by nature

This is the debut collection from this astonishing new West Midlands poet – bare

New Arcana by Jessica Traynor PRE-ORDER Mike Munford pieced together with a clarityPublished 25th September 2025. Available for pre order. Jessica Traynor's New Arcana explores grief, bad boyfriends and the power of female friendship through readings of the Tarot and Tim Burton movies. Moving from teenage friendship and destructive relationships towards a tangling with the realities of family life, domesticity, and desire, this highly inventive collection builds into a heartbroken letter to a dear friend (personified in the poems as