*A still from Gery Georgieva’s Blushing Valley*

We’re proud to present the next round of Mercurius books!

Mercurius’s Future World(s) is an anthology of essays that look beyond nihilistic neoliberalism.

Mercurius No. 2: Local Nature Devas is a selection of texts and images from the Poetry of Life, Society, Transitions, and Images sections of the website.

The books cost £15.00 each and feature many colour images by various innovative and thought-provoking visual poets and artists as well as work from some truly extraordinary writers.

Please consider supporting Mercurius by purchasing a copy of one or both of these books. Mercurius is volunteer run and the sale of these books is the sole source of our funding. All proceeds go to the running costs of the magazine.

A lot of love has gone into these books and they make beautiful gifts.

If you’re unable to afford a copy, please write to info@mercurius.one to receive a free pdf version.

Mercurius No.2: Local Nature Devas celebrates our inherent human flexibility, our mercurial natures, in the form of art and creative expression. As before, we blend sophistication with non-elitism.

Sometimes modern poetry can be tough for non-habitual poetry readers. That’s why we try to ease readers into the poem with devices like mini-introductions and artist statements. The hope is that anyone, from poets to general readers, can read Mercurius and feel something. Or see something.

There’s a mix of well-known voices and some you probably won’t know. What ties them together? Echoes of certain themes perhaps. Nature. Spirituality. A concern with the current state of the world but also the timeless stuff: grief, love, loss, departure.

We're also keen on the avant-garde and experimental visual work. This edition features a mini collage “library” and a mini vispo “library”.

Contributors include: Stephen Nelson, Forrest Gander, Sophie Cabot Black, Nidia Hernández, Rowena Hill, Mark Goodwin, Iain Britton, J.I. Kleinberg, Howie Good, Bruce Louis Dodson, Charles Putschkin, Michelle Lynn Dyrness, Cristina Peri Rossi, Piedad Bonnett, Yolanda Pantin, Carmen Boullosa, Rossella Di Paolo, Blanca Varela, Jorge Eduardo Eielson, James Knight, Katy Wimhurst, Steph Morris, Angela Caporaso, Joshua Rigsby, Laura Davis, HB Waight, Alice Moone, Mark Valentine, and Simran Kaur Johal.

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Mercurius’s Future World(s) contains texts that imagine alternatives to the crisis capitalism of today’s world. It took as its cue (and departed from) the ideas of cultural theorist Mark Fisher who, in the wake of the 2008 financial crash, suggested that it is easier to foresee the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

The writers in this anthology recognise this contemporary malaise—a pervasive sense of fatalism that hinders our ability to envision and enact transformative futures. From a searing critique of consumer society to lyrical meditations on the animistic essence of architecture and explorations of the vital visions of contemporary oracles, their essays and interviews testify to the multiplicity of visions that animate hopes for a better world.