Category: Issue27

It is a long time since I enjoyed a book packed full of ideas, research and analysis quite so much, and a great deal of that pleasure has to be down to Jeri’s writing style, which is engaging, witty and never dry or boring. I was sorry to get to the end of the book, having enjoyed even the appendices, and was thrilled to have the bibliography as a brilliant resource. No doubt I will start again at the beginning, this time with Google open by my side as one thing I did regret was a lack of illustrations in such a very visual book.

Fire and water, steam and iron – elements transmuting from one way of being to another; huge and impressive machines from a time now past. One thing I learned from Pete Jennings’ excellent book was the different names given to different kinds of smiths – we’ve all heard of gold and silversmiths, but there are also names for those who work with copper and bronze, or the white metals, such as tin.

Upon receiving my copy of this book, I was incredibly excited and a little overwhelmed by the sheer amount of inspiring conversation I was holding in my hand. In the course of a decade of radio interviews, Karen Tate has covered a whole host of topics and spoken with an eclectic roster of people. By collating these interactions into one edition, she has provided anyone interested in Goddess spirituality with a book which will awaken the imagination and provide inspiration for daily life.