BRENDAN ELLIS

WILLIAMS

Brendan Ellis Williams is a poet-seer, priest, religious scholar, spiritual director, herbalist, and teacher. His work is often concerned with rewilding the human soul, the role of landscape in human life and meaning, animism, worldview formation, esoteric religious expressions, the mysterious nature of light, and the reclamation of indigenous European traditions—particularly those of his own Gaelic ancestral inheritance. He thinks, breathes, dreams, and creates with the wild landscapes of the American Southwest, the Northern California Coast, and the West of Ireland.

VESTIGIA

VESTIGIA blends archaic & surrealist techniques to create a dreamlike landscape of myth, mysticism, & metamorphosis. Moving through themes of alienation, spiritual longing, & animistic connection, these poems trace a “topography of distance” while opening passages into a forgotten way of being where language becomes alchemy, archetypes breathe, & every element of the world is alive & speaking. Both haunting & hopeful, the poetry in VESTIGIA invites you to step beyond modern boundaries into a wilder, more primal field of imagination & devotion.

...these promises made to ourselves like devils’ husks now brittle on the vine

...these promises made to ourselves like devils’ husks now brittle on the vine