Witch - Couverture souple

Davies, Damian Walford

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1854115790 ISBN 13 : 9781854115799

Editeur : Seren, 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"Overall, Witch is an intriguing and moving poetry collection, which revisits an old story to throw a new and disturbing light on gender and power." - Planet

"...vividly imaginative, intelligent and engrossing." New Welsh Review

"...Walford Davies brilliantly confirms the terrifying cultural power of language. A masterly work perhaps comes to speak most chasteningly through the implacable cultural and linguistic contingencies it sets in play" Poetry Wales

With the narrative pull of a novel and the vibrancy of a play for voices, Damian Walford Davies s Witch offers a thrilling portrait of a Suffolk village in the throes of the witchcraft hunts of the mid-seventeenth century. The poems in this collection are dark spells, compact and moving: seven sections, each of seven poems, each of seven couplets, are delivered by those most closely involved in the making of a witch. The speakers from Thomas Love the priest, the villagers who slowly succumb to suspicion and counter-accusation, the discoverer of witches Francis Hurst, and the witch herself authentically conjure a war-torn society in which religious paranoia amplifies local grievances to fever pitch. Witch is a damning parable that chimes with the terror and anxieties of our own haunted age.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Damian Walford Davies is a poet, writer and librettist. He is the author of three collections Suit of Lights (2009), Witch (2012) and Judas (2015), together with the pamphlet Alabaster Girls (2015) and the co-written volume, Whiteout (2006). He is Head of the Schoolof English, Communication & Philosophy at Cardiff University, where he specialises in Romanticism, the two literatures of Wales, and Creative Writing.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Seren
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1854115790
• ISBN 13: 9781854115799
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72