Australian Fairy Review: Bee Williamson poetry & Dandelion Wine

Faerie Congrats

Naomi Henderson & Wendy Rule

Nicholas Albanis

Congrats to trance-medieval duo Dandelion Wine and wiccan diva Wendy Rule on their successful Midsummer Faerie Ball, Dec 2016 in Melbourne. Here's a photo (above) of two powerful Australian faeries, Naomi and Wendy, and another of Nicholas Albanis (left) complete with wings, twirly mo & lute.

Feb 2017 Victorian Fairy Tale Ring explores Sleeping Beauty. These antique illustrations (below) are in public domain. At least one hails from a book published in 1910, Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault, illustrated by Edmund Dulac.

Here's a delightful illustration from a Japanese fairy tale entitled The Green Willow. I once read that willows are not such a pest as some ecologists assume. These river-lovers helpfully slow the flow of flood water, reducing erosion and giving reeds a chance to filter pollution.

'The Green Willow' - a Japanese fairy tale

Melbourne poet Bee Williamson has released her marvellous new collection of poems and images, Torment and Soul. It's been sheer joy to partake of the fruits of Bee's toil - writing the Introduction, by invitation - as well as hearing Bee and other lyrical souls read, sing and play. For those of you who don't yet know Bee Williamson's writing, drawing, or graphic design: if you're into eco-mysticism that sashays between harrowing honesty, whimsy and ecstasy, this is for you. Listeners of my music might like to know that Bee is the daughter of one of our brilliant longtime producers, Harry Williamson.

Here is where to purchase Bee's book, Torment & Soul.
Bookpod
Readings

More of Bee's art, from her other exhibitions or books:

Broadly speaking, we all inhabit Melbourne's ethereal movement that includes explorations of esoteric, phantasmagoric, intercultural, transcendental, polytheist, magic-realist, Faerie/ fairytalish, fantastique, mythological, trance-medieval, psychedelic and Pre-Raphaelite currents.
xxx Louisa John-Krol xxx

Australian Fairy Tale Society
Thank you Gypsy Thornton of Once Upon A Blog for decorating The Australian Fairy Tale Society's logo (right) with native flora for the season, and for superb ezine designs & conceptualisation this year.

Storytelling Australia Victoria
(formerly the Victorian Storytelling Guild)

Below is my emblem Blue Tree for music, writing, proof-reading, tutoring and fairy storytelling. Australian creative expressionist Karan Wicks designed the logo in the late 1990s, when I was between record companies (German, then French). It's abided as a symbol of independence, mingling our Celtic-European heritage with bushland of Australia, through Yggdrasil, the World Tree. The chalice represents vessels of creativity: Arthurian grail, Ceridwen's cauldron, and a wellspring over which the Well Women, Norns or Muses preside, to name a few. The blue is an optical shimmer of gum-trees due to eucalyptus oil that's both nourishing and deadly. I'm interested in the interplay of light and shadow that haunts humanity's shared histories, myths, fairy tales and dreams.