Helen Ivory

Broschiertes Buch

Constructing a Witch

Beschreibung

Helen Ivoryâ s collection Constructing a Witch fixes on the monstering and the scapegoating of women and on the fear of ageing femininity. These bewitching poems explore the witch archetype and the witch as human woman. With ten collage illustrations by Helen Ivory. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Autor

Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears, and teaches for UEA/National Centre for Writing online. She has published five collections with Bloodaxe Books: The Double Life of Clocks (2002), The Dog in the Sky (2006), The Breakfast Machine (2010), Waiting for Bluebeard (2013) and The Anatomical Venus (2019), with a sixth, Constructing a Witch, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, out in 2024. Fool's World, a collaborative Tarot with artist Tom de Freston (Gatehouse Press), won the 2016 Saboteur Best Collaborative Work award. The cover of The Anatomical Venus, which features her own artwork, won the East Anglian Writers Book by the Cover Award (East Anglian Book Awards 2019). In 2024 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors, an award recognising the achievement and distinction of individual poets.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 162g
• ISBN-13: 9781780377193
• ISBN-10: 1780377193
• Artikelnr.: 69743814