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Midden Witch
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Wydawca: Jonathan Cape
Data wydania: 01.05.2025
Seria: Cape Poetry
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
EAN: 9781787335240
Opis
Opis
The thrilling story of the healers, artists and prodigies once persecuted as witches – from the three-time T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE
In her thrilling fourth collection, Midden Witch, Fiona Benson enters the world of familiars, fables and hedge-magic and focuses on the persistent superstition – the fear and false knowledge – that was witchcraft.
Telling tales of imagined transformations and spell-casting, these poems present a litany of artists, dreamers and outcasts and a study of their ostracisation. The poet looks at how gifted, sometimes troubled, individuals – generally healers, artists, prodigies and almost always women – became scapegoats, victims of societal paranoia and persecution, and were hounded for centuries, often to a gratuitously violent public execution.
In Midden Witch, these women speak back to us with dark humour, insight and real herbal knowledge. Reckoning with middle age, marginalisation, perimenopause and a steady, unstoppable vanishing, this troubled codex of remedies, spells and stories speaks to human fear in the face of the unknown, and a drive to protect our loved ones that transcends all rational thought. At play in the language of archival accounts of witchcraft, this is a dark, eclectic spell-book that witnesses the end-days of magic.
'Benson is one of the finest English poets writing today' - Blake Morrison
'No one writes the way Fiona Benson does. No one is as raging, as fearless' - Daisy Johnson
A new collection of Benson's wise and vivid work is a real occasion... exciting...fully inhabited and multi-faceted' - Guardian
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POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE
In her thrilling fourth collection, Midden Witch, Fiona Benson enters the world of familiars, fables and hedge-magic and focuses on the persistent superstition – the fear and false knowledge – that was witchcraft.
Telling tales of imagined transformations and spell-casting, these poems present a litany of artists, dreamers and outcasts and a study of their ostracisation. The poet looks at how gifted, sometimes troubled, individuals – generally healers, artists, prodigies and almost always women – became scapegoats, victims of societal paranoia and persecution, and were hounded for centuries, often to a gratuitously violent public execution.
In Midden Witch, these women speak back to us with dark humour, insight and real herbal knowledge. Reckoning with middle age, marginalisation, perimenopause and a steady, unstoppable vanishing, this troubled codex of remedies, spells and stories speaks to human fear in the face of the unknown, and a drive to protect our loved ones that transcends all rational thought. At play in the language of archival accounts of witchcraft, this is a dark, eclectic spell-book that witnesses the end-days of magic.
'Benson is one of the finest English poets writing today' - Blake Morrison
'No one writes the way Fiona Benson does. No one is as raging, as fearless' - Daisy Johnson
A new collection of Benson's wise and vivid work is a real occasion... exciting...fully inhabited and multi-faceted' - Guardian
Producent/osoba odpowiedzialna za bezpieczeństwo produktu
Penguin Random House Ireland Limited
Morrison Chambers, 32 Nassau Street
D02 YH68 Dublin
productsafety@penguin.co.uk
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Data wydania: 01.05.2025
Liczba stron: 96
Wymiary: 13.0x19.8
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
Wydawca: Jonathan Cape
Autor:
Seria: Cape Poetry
Tytuł:Midden Witch
EAN: 9781787335240
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