Sam Retallick's The Winter Wizard is a folkloric sequence that blends whimsy, melancholy, and myth in an imaginative coming-of-age narrative. Set in a liminal landscape...

Sam Retallick's The Winter Wizard is a folkloric sequence that blends whimsy, melancholy, and myth in an imaginative coming-of-age narrative. Set in a liminal landscape of moor, woodland, and sea, the poem conjures a dreamlike Cornwall populated by magical figures, talking bobbins, and vanished saints. Through deceptively simple language and shifting forms, Retallick explores grief, seasonal transition, and queer self-invention with a lyrical clarity that holds both humour and tenderness. The result is a strange and quietly moving mythopoeic tale shaped by place, magic, and memory.

Author: Sam Retallick
Publisher: Broken Sleep Books
Published: 08/31/2025
Pages: 28
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.08lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.07d
ISBN: 9781917617260

About the Author
Retallick, Sam: - Sam Retallick was born in Cornwall, and has never left. He graduated from Falmouth University with a BA(hons) in Creative Writing. His in progress novel, Octobaby, was one of two entrants recognised as 'highly commended' in the Writers and Artists Working-Class-Writers' Prize 2022. The Winter Wizard is his first book.