WITCH Stéphane Bouquet

WITCH Stéphane BouquetRebecca Tams WITCH is a strange, visceral and darkly witty debut by a startling new voice in British poetry. Rebecca Tams reckons with blood and earth, mysticism and the devil, witch trials and the suffragettes, gender and sexuality. At turns lyrical, philosophical and obscene, WITCH evokes the intimate, sensual power of nature and merges it with the revolutionary potential of women's voices. There are poems as spells spells against suppression,

dreamlike collection

perception

microcosmically transforming the vast open expanse of the plains into delicate flower petals

almost arbitrary in its liberties

Amnion is a contemporary lyric epic

Jacqueline Rose

screenplay

suffering brothers

who died in her mother’s arms just a few hours after she was born

Anton de Kom

where language is both god’s first gift to humankind and the cadaver in which the sacred father decays with his mortal creation

these poems offer up tangling