page 2 of 2: 1961-1983 !Formatting in progress! 1961 Goose of Hermogenes. London: Peter Owen, 1961. With dust jacket design by the author. A Gothic novel concerning the alchemical quest. Although it was not published until 1961, it had been written much earlier: extracts appeared in print as early as 1939. I Reprinted in 2003, with the inclusion of a biographical sketch by Eric Ratcliffe and personal reminiscences of the author by Peter Owen. A new edition was published in 2017 by Peter Owen with the inclusion of a previously unused chapter, the artist’s illustrations, executed in 1955 and a new introduction by Richard Shillitoe. Text only reprinted in 2025 with an introduction by Jennifer Higgie. The Chapter ‘Putrefaction’ reprinted in Sarré, in French translation, pp. 40-51. ‘Love-Charm II’ and ‘The Three and the Nine’, in Springtime Three; an Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Owen, Peter and Levien, Michael, (eds.), 103-105. London: Peter Owen, pp. 103-5. Two poems. ‘Love-Charm II’ Reprinted: I Saw Water, pp. 174-5; Medea’s Charms, p. 71; Hale, A. Sex Magic, 2024 London, Tate Publishing, p. 36; Sarré in French translation, pp. 38-9. ‘The Three and the Nine’ Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, p. 76-7. ‘Islands of the Twilit Sea’, An Tribann , No 26, p. 23. A poem, published in the journal of the Druids and Bards of Brittany. ‘A Region’, An Tribann, No. 27, p. 15. A poem. ‘Sonnet’, An Tribann, No 29, p. 16. A poem. 1962 ‘L’Isle de la Fleur Nocturne’, Fantasmagie, No, 9, pp. 16-17. A prose poem, ‘Night Blossom Island’, in French translation by Paule Mévisse. ‘Liturgical Reformation?’, The Aylesford Review Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 20-22. The author’s highly critical views on changes to the Roman Catholic liturgy. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 274-7. 1963 ‘La Goélette ‘Étoile du Soir’’, Soleils, No. 4, pp. 53-55. A short story. French translation by Serge Hutin. Reprinted as The Schooner Hesperus in the original English version, in Medea’s Charms, pp. 178-81; Sarré, pp. 52-55. ‘The Lake of the Proud Trout’, An Tribann, No. 32, p. 3. A poem. 1967 ‘The Bell-branch’, ‘Moyslaght’ and ‘Coronach for Iona’, The Clan Colquhoun Society Newsletter, No. 3, [pp. 2, 5-6]. Three poems. ‘ Moyslaght’ reprinted in Ore, No. 12, p. 7, the Bell-branch in Medea’s Charms pp. 71-2. ‘The Fair at Helston’ in Stanford, Derek (ed.) The Arts of Sport and Recreation, London, Thomas Nelson, pp. 152-56. An excerpt from The Living Stones. ‘A Familiar, Contact, No 1, Winter 1967, pp17-20. An acount of the death and burial of her cat, Sandy. 1968 ‘Moyslaght’ and ‘Swannenbrunn’, Ore, No. 12, p. 7. Two poems. ‘Island of Mystery’, Prediction, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 21-2. A visit to an uninhabited island in the Scilly Isles that gave rise to an experience of synchronicity. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 278-82. ‘The Church with a Crooked Spire’, Prediction, Vol. 34, No. 7, pp 11-12. A personal experience of passing through a time warp. ‘The Light of the Cross’, Prediction, Vol. 34, No. 9, pp. 6-8, 44. An article on Cornish stone crosses. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 283-8. ‘Still Mythical Ireland’, The Times Educational Supplement, September 20, pp. 537-9, with five ink sketches by the artist. This is the first of seven pieces that Colquhoun wrote for the Supplement’s ‘Wandering Scholar’ series, the purpose of which was ‘to pass on information of a practical kind such as one sophisticated traveller with a light purse might give to a friend of like tastes and pocket.’ The destinations about which she wrote were places she knew well (Ireland, Cornwall, Brittany), places where she had holidayed (Malta, Egypt) or places she had visited in connection with her art exhibitions (Berlin and Czechoslovakia). ‘The Revealer’. The Cornish Review, No. 12, p. 12. A poem. Reprinted:: The Dreamt Sea: an Anthology of Anglo-Cornish Poetry 1928-2004, Kent, Alan M. (ed.), London: Francis Boutle, p. 73. ‘The Thirteen Treasures of the Isle of Britain’. Prediction, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 12-14. n essay on geographical links with the numinous. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 307-12. ‘Meditation begins at Home’, Prediction, Vol. 35, No. 8, pp. 9-10. Practical advice for the person new to meditation. ‘In the Light of Cornwall’, The Times Educational Supplement, January 27, pp. 153-54, with three b/w. drawings of Cornish scenes by the artist. Advice for visitors to Cornwall. ‘Magna Mater’, The Times Educational Supplement, October 10, pp. 35-7. Travel advice for visitors to Malta. ‘The Qabalistic Earths’, Insight, No. 13, pp. 14-17. An essay on states of matter not recognised by ordinary human consciousness. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 289-93. 1970 Review of Holman, a verse drama by Brian Pearce, Ore. No. 14, pp. 30-31. ‘The Interlace’, Quest, No. 1, p. 12. An article on the meaning of Celtic patterns. ‘The Openings of the Body’, Quest, No. 4, pp. 26-27. An article on the possible esoteric function of bodily orifices. Reprinted: I Saw Water; Medea’s Charms, pp. 268-9. ‘Relics of Romanticism in Czechoslovakia’, The Times Educational Supplement, January 16, p. 44. Vacationing in Czechoslovakia on a budget. ‘Wisdom Tradition of the Gael, part 1: The Green Diamond’, Prediction, Vol. 36. No. 4, pp. 20-22. The first of two articles on mystical locations in the British Isles and their otherworldly inhabitants. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 313-18. ‘Wisdom Tradition of the Gael, part 2: The Danaan Tree of Life.1970’, Prediction, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 20-22. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 318-325. ‘Land of Legend and Ancient Peace’, The Times Educational Supplement, October 9, pp. 41-2. Advice for visitors to Brittany. Review of Ritual Magic in England by Francis King, Prediction, Vol. 36, December, pp. 51-2. ‘Numbers in Flowers’, Insight, No. 19, pp. 23-6. Colquhoun’s alternative system for the classification of flowering plants. Reprinted: Insight, No 47. 1994, pp. 5-9.; Medea’s Charms, pp. 294-98. 1971 ‘Bergie and Zan’, Prediction, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 24-26. Some biographical information concerning the occultist MacGregor Mathers and his wife Moïna. ‘A Walking Flame’, Man, Myth and Magic, No. 80, pp. 2257-8. An article on MacGregor Mathers. ‘Cornish Earth’, The Cornish Review, No.18, pp. 57-66. A glossary, compiled by Colquhoun, of Cornish words and phrases. ‘Kurt Schwitters en Angleterre’, Fantasmagie, No. 29, p. 20. Memories of Colquhoun’s contacts with the German artist following his arrival as a refugee in England. Written in French. ‘The Two Silurists’, Prediction, Vol. 37, No. 7, pp. 22-4. Thoughts on Thomas Vaughan, the seventeenth century Welsh alchemist, and his twin brother Henry, the poet. ‘Two Pupils and a Master’, Prediction, Vol. 37, No. 10, pp. 12-14. The master is Mathers, the pupils are Yeats and Crowley. Reprinted: The Golden Dawn Legacy of MacGregor Mathers, Küntz, Darcy, (ed.), Edmonds: WA: Holmes Publishing Group, pp. 39-43. ‘Aperçu sur l'Origine du Collage’, Fantasmagie, No. 31, p. 28. Brief thoughts on Moïna Mathers’ part in the origin of collage. Written in French by Colquhoun. ‘Sublimation’, an extract from Goose of Hermogenes. Transformaction, No. 4, pp. 12-13. ‘Feminine of Magnesia’; ‘Fire’; ‘Sputum Lunae’; ‘Lac Virginis’; ‘Caput Mortem’ and ‘Dissolution’. TRANSFORMAcTION, No. 4, pp. 20-21. Six poems from the Incantations sequence. ‘Here’, Ore, No. 15, pp. 21. A poem. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, p. 77. ‘The Tree-Month Ruis’, Ore, No. 15, p. 32. A poem. A review of Selected Poems of Gertrud Kolma, Ore, No. 15, pp. 36-7. ‘Imbolc’, a poem from the Celtic tree alphabet sequence, and reviews of Letters from John Cowper Powys to Glyn Hughes edited by Bernard Jones; The Cranwell Lectures by J.J. Williamson and Evolution to Democracy by John Creasey, Ore, No. 16, pp. 20, 24-5. ‘Rubbish into Art’, Times Educational Supplement, December 10, p. 33. An article on the use of collage in art and education, with two b/w illustrations of Merz collages by the artist. ‘Berlin is an Island’, The Times Educational Supplement, 1 January, pp. 20-1, 26. Visiting Berlin on a budget. 1972 A review of City of Revelation by John Michell, Ore, No. 17, suppl. pp. 2-4. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 332-5. ‘In Search of Faculty X’, Prediction, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 9-10, 14. A review of The Occult by Colin Wilson. 1973 Two poems ‘On the Portrait of ‘S’Rioghail Mo Dhream’’ and ‘The Tree Month Duir’, Ore, No. 18, pp. 4-5. ‘The Tree Month Duir’ was reprinted in Grimoire of the Entangled Thicket (1973) and ‘On the Portrait of ‘S’Rioghail Mo Dhream’’ was reprinted in Veins of Gold: Ore 1954-1995, edited by Ratcliffe, Eric and Görtschacher, Wolfgang (eds.), Salzburg: University of Salzburg, 1997, p. 21. Reviews of two volumes of poetry: Avebury by Richard Burns and Warrior of the Icenian Queen by Eric Ratcliffe, Ore, No. 19, p. 27. ‘The Chain Poem’, TRANSFORMAcTION, No. 5, pp. 22-3. An article about this collaborative surrealist technique of poetic composition, including two examples: ‘If and Then’ reprinted in Medea’s Charms, p. 47, ‘Questionnaire and Answer Foursome’, Medea’s Charms pp. 47-8. Grimoire of the Entangled Thicket. Stevenage: Ore Publications. Poems concerning traditional Celtic festivals and the tree-alphabet, with eight ink illustrations by the artist. Published in a (probable) edition of 500 copies. Reprinted, without the illustrations, in: The Dreamt Sea: an Anthology of Anglo-Cornish Poetry 1928-2004, Kent, Alan M. (ed.), London: Francis Boutle, pp, 73-5. Individual poems reprinted as follows: Muin: I Saw Water, p.164. ‘Banners from the Sky’, Prediction, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 23-24. An essay on luminous portents. ‘The Spear of Destiny’, Prediction, Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 18-19. A lengthy review of the book of the same name by Trevor Ravenscroft concerning the fate of the Lance of Longinus. ‘Hypnagogic poems’, Gradiva, Brussels, No 4, p.38. Three short untitled poems. 1974 ‘Song of the Chalice Bearer’, a poem, previously unpublished, belonging to the Grimoire of the Entangled Thicket series, and a review of The Savage God: A Study of Suicide by A. Alvarez, Ore, No. 20, pp. 7, 55. Review of The Book of Splendours by Eliphas Levi, Prediction, Vol. 40, No, 2, p.48. 1975 Sword of Wisdom; MacGregor Mathers and ‘The Golden Dawn’. London: Neville Spearman, 1975. A biography of the co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The book also contains material about the members, temples, teachings and structure of the Order and autobiographical information about Colquhoun herself. ‘Egypt and the Nile’, The Times Educational Supplement, January 3, p. 23. Practical tips on visiting Egypt on a budget. 1976 Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Paintings, Drawings, Collages 1936-76, [exhibition catalogue], Penzance: Newlyn-Orion Galleries. An autobiographical essay. Reprinted under its original title, ‘A Canvas in the Wind’, Medea’s Charms pp. 258-64 1977 Review of A Sun-Red Mantle, by Eric Ratcliffe, Ore, No. 22, p. 37. 1978 ‘The Taro as Colour’, Sangreal, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 31-3. An article explaining the hermetic colour scheme Colquhoun used for her Tarot card designs. The text was originally written as an information sheet for the exhibition at the Newlyn Gallery, Penzance in 1977 when her newly completed pack of Tarot cards was shown. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 299-300. 1979 Review of The Ancient Wisdom by Geoffrey Ashe, Ore, No. 23/24 (double issue), pp. 46-7. ‘Pilgrimage,’ Sangreal, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 29-31. Advice on visiting chthonic power-centres. Reprinted: I Saw Water, pp. 166-7. ‘The Zodiac and the Flashing Colours’, The Hermetic Journal, No. 4, pp. 5-7. Advice on how to paint the signs of the zodiac in their appropriate magical colours. Reprinted: I Saw Water, pp. 176-9; Medea’s Charms, pp. 301-47. ‘Colour and the Two Sigils’, The Hermetic Journal, No. 4, pp. 8-9. An essay on the importance of painting magical sigils in their correct colours. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 305-6. ‘Memoir of E.J.L. Garstin’, Hermetic Journal, No. 6, p. 11. Edward Garstin, a noted alchemist, was a cousin of Colquhoun’s and an important figure in her early occult education. Reprinted as the introduction to: The Rosie Crucian Secrets: Their Excellent Method of Making Medicines of Metals also their Laws and Mysteries, by Dr. John Dee, Garstin, E.J. Langford, (ed.), pp. 7-10, Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1985. ‘Notes on the Colouring of the Homer's Golden Chain Diagram’, Hermetic Journal, No. 6, pp. 15-17. Colquhoun’s views on the correct colours for painting the magical diagram, the Aurea Catena Homeri. ‘Mr Test and the Strawberry Blondes’, South West Review, No. 6, p. 68. A short story. Written following a visit to the collection of ship’s figureheads in the County Museum, Enniscorthy Castle, Wexford Ireland. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, p. 182. ‘Onset of Winter’, (a poem, also in Arabic translation), two ‘Little Poems from Egypt’, and ‘The Echoing Bruise’, an extract, from Goose of Hermogenes (1961), TR Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 94-6. 1980 ‘Lamorna’, Wood and Water, Vol. 1 No. 7, p. 11. A short extract from The Living Stones: Cornwall (1957). ‘An Avon Well’, Wood and Water, Vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 19-20. Musings following a visit to a holy well. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 336-7. ‘My Star’, Melmoth, No. 2, p. 30. A poem ‘Leaf of Grace’, Melmoth, No. 2, p. 30. A poem. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, p.62. Question and Answer Foursome’ Melmoth, No. 2, p. 30. A chain poem. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 47-8. ‘Notes on Automatism’, Melmoth, No. 2, 31-32. An article on automatism. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 255-7. ‘I cannot say where it is …’, The New Celtic Review, March, p. 9. A visit to an unnamed evocative location. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 338-9. 1981 ‘Fearn’ and ‘Uath’, two poems, first published in Grimoire of the Entangled Thicket (1973), Ore, No. 27, p. 6. Reprinted: Veins of Gold: Ore 1954-1995, Ratcliffe, Eric and Görtschacher, Wolfgang, (eds.), Salzburg: University of Salzburg, 1997, pp. 21-22. ‘Women in Art’, Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, p.65. A letter in which Colquhoun commented on references to her work in a previous issue of the journal. 1982 ‘Coronach for Iona’, The New Celtic Review, Lammas, pp. 4-5. A suite of six poems and seven drawings. The drawings (which are probably not by Colquhoun) record a visit to the island of Iona made in August 1981. The poems are earlier, first published in The Clan Colquhoun Society Newsletter (1967). ‘Uathe.’ The New Celtic Review Beltane, p. 5. A poem, first published in Grimoire of the Entangled Thicket (1973). In this printing, the title is given a variant spelling of Uath (the Ogham symbol that stands for ‘hawthorn’). Review of The Narrows by David Jones, a collection of his poetic fragments, Ore, No. 29, pp. 39-40. 1983 Osmazone, Örkeljunga, Sweden: Dunganon. A slim collection of poems, texts and drawings, published in an edition of 200 copies. ‘The Applicant’ Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 183-184. ‘The Story of the Leaves’. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 187-9. ‘A Narrow Room’. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 190-1. Ode to the Philosophical Mercury’ Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, pp. 78-81. ‘A Dream’, Wood and Water, Vol. 2, No. 6, p. 3. Reflections on holy wells, inspired by a dream. Reprinted: Medea’s Charms, p .340. ‘Uath’, Wood and Water, Vol 2, No. 7, p. 3. A poem, first published in Ore, No. 27 (1971). ‘Fearn’, Wood and Water, Vol 2, No. 7, p. 8. A poem, first published in in Grimoire of the Entangled Thicket (1973) ‘The Scythian Tamberlain’, The New Celtic Review, Midwinter to Brigantia, p. 2. A poem. ‘A Short List of Superstitions and Pagan Practices’, The New Celtic Review, Midwinter to Brigantia, p. 2. Translated by Colquhoun from the Capitularia Regum Francorum, Paris, 1677.