Constructing a Witch by Helen Ivory



One of the best poetry collections I’ve read in the past year. A brilliantly eclectic and multi-faceted take on the subject, including collage-poems, and wonderful ekphrastic poems after Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Leonora Carrington, and intruiging less well-known studies: ‘There comes a point in every woman’s life / when she transmutes into The Spirit of the Storm . . . get out and find a fitting auditorium’. With spells and testaments to and of those historically accused of witchcraft, this builds to even more than the sum of its parts.




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