Words are our Sorcery / Karl Wiggins

Trance Poetry

You know those ….. drifting kinds of thoughts? When it’s easy to believe that someone else is dreaming you? Well that’s Trance Poetry.

Words are the writer’s sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They’re our enchantment and our temptation

The aim of the poetry in this book is to demonstrate how words alone can lift you up and take you places, how they can enchant and bewitch, creating the illusion that just for a few minutes everything’s alright with the world.


When I started to write poetry I searched around for subject matter, and chose colour. Not yellow, red and blue, but Paprika, Jet, Ochre, Huckleberry Blue, Fiesta etc. and went inside trying to see where that ‘colour’ would take me. From this I created a series of poems which I entitled Colour-oetry, and I’ve included these here as well.


If you enjoy poetry writing or poetry analysis then you might like to take a chance on this book.


But while I would perhaps class this in the New Age Spirituality genre, there’s much more here. Only half of this book is poetry, well 56% to be precise. A while ago I took an interest in the parallel lives of the chef and the writer, cooking up a storm in the kitchen. How the chef creates his magic in the chaotic environment of the kitchen compares well to how writers create their hocus-pocus in the peace and quiet of the study. A chef’s wizardry is in his ingredients, whilst a writer’s sorcery is in his words. So I wrote a few chapters on food, following it all over the world at one stage, attempting to paint pictures with my words, comparing the trades of chef, bricklayer, and even Masai Warrior with that of the writer.
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Whether I’ve succeeded or not, only the reader can tell.

“Brilliant, thought-provoking writing”

“This is an easy read yet gets the mind stimulated and can lead to some deep thinking if one so wishes”

“Class writing by a top-notch, and sometimes controversial, author. I loved it”

I’ve finished the book with three chapters on parenthood. Fatherhood to be precise. True stories actually. My goal here is to use the writer’s sorcery to establish emotion and hopefully leave you with a lump in your throat


I hope you enjoy reading this, because I loved writing it!


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