After You Were, I Am Paperback / softback
by Camille (Poetry Editor) Ralphs
Paperback / softback
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This extraordinary debut heralds the arrival of a major new talent. In After You Were, I Am, charged moments from history collide with our own godless modern world.
The book's three sections - ingenious rewritings of canonical prayers, dramatic monologues from the Pendle witch trials of 1612, and the divine tragedy of the Elizabethan magus John Dee - obsess over individual human characters and how our past informs (and informs on) our present.
Ralphs's style is utterly distinctive; she is a modern metaphysical, tapping into a haunting, era-spanning utterance enlivened by the electric pulse of wordplay and imaginative conceit.
This is poetry that in comprehending the past manages to make of it something utterly original and contemporary.
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In Stock - More than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:14/03/2024
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- ISBN:9780571384853
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In Stock - More than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:14/03/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780571384853