This second issue of <i>Spectral Realms</i>, Hippocampus Press's acclaimed journal of weird poetry, features all-original poems--sonnets, ballads, vibrant free-verse lyrics, and much else--from such leading writers as John Shirley, William F. Nolan, Wade German, Gemma Files, Ann Schwader, W. H. Pugmire, and many others. It leads off with a lengthy poem by Donald Sidney-Fryer, one of the pillars of the weird poetry movement for the last half-century or more.

<i>Spectral Realms</i> is devoted to the study and analysis of weird poetry as much as it is a showcase for the poetry itself. Accordingly, this issue features Part 1 of Leigh Blackmore's detailed examination of the verse of Leah Bodine Drake, whose <i>A Hornbook for Witches</i> is one of the rarest of books published by Arkham House. The issue also contains incisive reviews of recent books of poetry by Sunni K Brock.

With its generous sampling of poetry both old and new, its articles and reviews, and its elegant and tasteful design, <i>Spectral Realms</i> is the ideal showcase for the renaissance of weird poetry now underway.