Midden witch / Fiona Benson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benson, Fiona, author.

Series:

Cape poetry paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Witchcraft--Poetry.

Witchcraft.

Genre:

Poetry.

Prose poems.

Physical Description:

87 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Jonathan Cape, [2025]

Summary:

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781787335240

1787335240

OCLC:

1451098709

Publisher Number:

90102144023