WITCH by Rebecca Tamás
WITCH is a strange, visceral and darkly witty debut by a startling new voice in British poetry. Rebecca Tamas reckons with blood and earth, mysticism and the devil, witch trials and the suffragettes, gender and sexuality. These are poems as spells - spells against suppression, silence and obedience; hexes that cling to your body like sweat.
'My heart pounded as I read WITCH; I felt as if Tamas's words were burning the page as I readWITCH is sexy, frightening, and cerebral at once; full of the weight of history, while also being witty, contemporary, and playful. What Tamas does with language, and with the legacy of the witch, is thrillingly strange. She is the real deal.' -Katherine Angel; 'Emerging from the gloom, in tar, grit and blood, WITCH is an occult trip, a miasmic universe without stricture. A fissure through the lyric mode, the poems ooze up through the cracks like lava. Demons, vomit, eggs, agony; I want to live inside this book.' -Rachael Allen; 'Sharp-witted, trenchant and bold, Rebecca Tamas' WITCH constellates the characteristics of instinctual life by pulling sexuality into the realm of the archetypal, where we are challenged to face witch qualities within our own unconscious. By targeting the body, these stunning poems awaken primordial parts of our being, releasing energy that had been mobilized towards repression, so that we become free to taste the radical eroticism of volcanic God-speaking feelings. These spells and hexes reanimate historical female silence, demanding that we listen to all that had been kept latent for so long. Can we accept the witch - the female within ourselves - as she is, without trying to make her conform to our expectations? To do so, we would have to adjust our thinking instead of forcing adjustment in the Other-we would have to change ourselves. WITCH leads the way.' -Nuar Alsadir; 'Rebecca Tamas' WITCH is the book of poems we need in 2019. Part poetry book, part questionnaire, and part spell book, WITCH is immediate and vibrant, talking directly to us with its eyes on us from the first page and relentlessly until the end. Like a vengeful hornet, the persona in these pages waits for us as we swim idly by in the lake until we come up for air so that it can sting us again. Like a demon, the persona hides under the table until we lift up the tablecloth and see its shining eyes. This is a book that stays with you, long after you are done reading it. WITCH makes us question what or who we pray to, what we write poems for, and how we are living and if this is really the right way. More than anything, WITCH asks to reconsider our relationship to humanity and how we use the terms good or evil to explain any universal human action. In the midst of gorgeous and horrific imagery, which cuts us like glass, it tells us to be kind to each other. WITCH is such a wise book. It tells us what we need to hear. ' - Dorothea Lasky.
Rebecca Tamás is a London-born poet currently living in York, where she is Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University. She has published two pamphlets of poetry: Savage (Clinic Press, 2017) and The Ophelia Letters (Salt Publishing, 2013). Her work has appeared in The White Review, The Poetry Review, Poetry London and The London Review of Books. She was joint winner of the 2016 Manchester Poetry Prize and in 2017 she was the Fenton Arts Trust Emerging Writer. In 2018 she co-edited the anthology Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry (Ignota) with Sarah Shin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781908058621 |
| ISBN 10 | 1908058625 |
| Titel | WITCH |
| Autor | Rebecca Tamas |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Penned in the Margins |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2019-03-20 |
| Seitenanzahl | 120 |
| Preise | Winner of A Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2018 |
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