Midden Witch (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
96
Utgivningsdatum
2025-05-01
Förlag
Vintage Publishing
Dimensioner
9 x 198 x 131 mm
Vikt
100 g
ISBN
9781787335240

Midden Witch

av Fiona Benson
Häftad,  Engelska, 2025-05-01
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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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Fiona Benson lives in Devon with her husband and their two daughters. She has published three previous collections of poetry, all of which were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize: Bright Travellers, which won the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry's Prize for First Full Collection, Vertigo & Ghost, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize and won both the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and Ephemeron, which was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the London Hellenic Prize.

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