Summary
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 – general…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787335240 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787335240 |
| Author: | Fiona Benson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 12 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 118g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 8mm |
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These are poems cast as beautiful, intricate spells, reminding us there is more to life than we can hope to explain * Guardian *
About The Author
Fiona Benson
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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