"Marc Vincenz's poetry collection, Spells for the Wicked, is a verbal extravaganza and poetic grimoire, travelling widely across galaxies and into the intricacies of imagination. It invokes quixotic, sometimes mysterious notions associated with human belief and understanding. It revels in a plethora of bewitching narratives, incantations and contemporary reimaginings of history as it riffs suggestively and subversively on connections between the modern world, ancient cultures and philosophical traditions. Characterised by a remarkable sonic playfulness, Spells for the Wicked invites the reader to relish language as a series of transformative forays into a unique and quintessentially twenty-first century form of the poetic art." --Paul Hetherington.