The Witch on Yellowhammer Hill

The Witch on Yellowhammer Hill provides an enchanting glimpse into the unexpected magick of the poet’s retirement and aging. What a surprise to find age celebrated! What joy to live each day with the freedom to read bedtime stories to flowers, to splash in rain puddles or chase fireflies on her cane, not giving a fig what neighbors may think!

Within these pages, we meet the Cailleach, an ancient Celtic hag Goddess who transforms into a beautiful young woman. We dance to the tribal energy of womanpoem and listen to the wisdom of Crone’s Counsel. This is a poet who converses with a shrew, a grasshopper, and all disillusioned Cinderellas.

Yet amidst the joy and celebration, Martin-Wood also deftly steps from the world of fantasy to address the brutal realities of child abuse, bullying, our endangered environment, and the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris.

This is the poet’s most comprehensive collection to date. In addition to over 50 new poems, readers will find selections from her previously published works, including several of her sonnets, her environmental poems, her most requested poems from two decades of public readings, and an entire section of her beloved nature poems.