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<p><b>The thrilling story of the healers, artists and prodigies once persecuted as witches – from the three-time T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet<br><br>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE</b><br><br>In her thrilling fourth collection, <i>Midden Witch</i>, 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>In <i>Midden Witch</i>, 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.<br><br><b>‘Benson is one of the finest English poets writing today’ Blake Morrison</b><br><br><b>‘No one writes the way Fiona Benson does. No one is as raging, as fearless’ Daisy Johnson</b><br><br><b>A new collection of Benson’s wise and vivid work is a real occasion... exciting...fully inhabited and multi-faceted’ <i>Guardian</i></b></p>
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| Author | Benson, Fiona |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9781787335240 |
| Item Height | 1 |
| Item Length | 19.8 |
| Item Width | 13 |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
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Midden Witch
£12.60
£12.60/each
Description
<p><b>The thrilling story of the healers, artists and prodigies once persecuted as witches – from the three-time T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet<br><br>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE</b><br><br>In her thrilling fourth collection, <i>Midden Witch</i>, 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>In <i>Midden Witch</i>, 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.<br><br><b>‘Benson is one of the finest English poets writing today’ Blake Morrison</b><br><br><b>‘No one writes the way Fiona Benson does. No one is as raging, as fearless’ Daisy Johnson</b><br><br><b>A new collection of Benson’s wise and vivid work is a real occasion... exciting...fully inhabited and multi-faceted’ <i>Guardian</i></b></p>
Sold by Speedyhen (Speedy Hen LTD)
| Author | Benson, Fiona |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9781787335240 |
| Item Height | 1 |
| Item Length | 19.8 |
| Item Width | 13 |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
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- FREE standard courier delivery by Fri 10 Oct
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