Will Vigar

poet. writer. imposter.

Firefrost and Fundindelve – Travels Around Alderley Edge (Part Two)

iii -The Wild Magic Alderley Edge, or at least my Alderley Edge, exists only in my mind and there is now little correlation between the reality and fantasy Edges. Perhaps … Continue reading

February 4, 2025 · Leave a comment

Firefrost and Fundindelve – Travels around Alderley Edge (Part One)

i. Firefrost and Fundindelve The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Alan Garner’s 1960 novel has had me entirely in thrall for almost 50 years. It is a timeless tale of good versus … Continue reading

February 3, 2025 · Leave a comment

A Psalm of Stone – Travels around Avebury (Part Two)

7  The lack of stones, the absence of carvings made Avebury feel somehow ‘less’. Not being able to see the sites that thrilled me as a child was a deep … Continue reading

February 1, 2025 · Leave a comment

A Psalm of Stone – Travels Around Avebury (Part One)

1  In 1977, ITV first broadcast a children’s TV drama – produced by HTV – called ‘Children of the Stones.’ Set in the Neolithic village of ‘Milbury,’ it told a … Continue reading

February 1, 2025 · Leave a comment

Ardnamurchan

i -1968 When I was four years old, we went on holiday with to the exotic sounding Ardnamurchan Point on the west coast of Scotland. I remember leaving home in the … Continue reading

January 29, 2025 · 2 Comments

Travels Around Summerisle

This piece formed a part of my PhD thesis. The section this is extracted from dealt with the uncanny, the weird, the eerie, and my reactions to them. I illustrated … Continue reading

January 28, 2025 · Leave a comment

Tales From the Urban Prairie – Available now!

Click on Picture to Purchase – £12 Tales From The Urban Prairie: Stories, Histories, Recollections and Urban Legends from Kelvin Flats. In the 1980’s and 90’s, I lived in a … Continue reading

July 30, 2024 · Leave a comment

Twelve Short Poems – Now Available

Click on picture to purchase – £5 Originally a handmade and hand-bound gift created on Christmas Day 2023. Twelve Days, Twelve Poems, Twelve People… Not a Christmas themed poem among … Continue reading

July 30, 2024 · Leave a comment

Lunar Tattoos – Now Available

Available again! Lunar Tattoos – Will Vigar – £7 – Click on Picture to purchase “Vigar recognises both with impish delight and a darker, more fearsome suggestion, exactly what he … Continue reading

July 30, 2024 · Leave a comment

Star Shaped

Moths – drunk on nightScented stock and Jasmine licking – with helical glee – the salt condensation from goose rippled skin. Stars alive with the skittering paths of angle shades, … Continue reading

June 29, 2024 · Leave a comment