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Pagan prayers

‘The Modern Pagan Prayers project is a collaboration between Spain-based Lucía Moreno-Velo and me, in the West Midlands,’ writes subscriber Gwyneth Box

‘Neither of us had planned to write a series of prayerbooks, and yet that’s just what has happened, with the third book in the series published on Amazon in July 2021.

‘It all started with an email in the middle of the first lockdown. Lucía and I were friends when I lived in Spain, but we’d lost touch. Then, in May 2020, I had a message asking me to apply my poetry-writing skills to critique a blessing that Lucía had written for an online

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