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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- Authors:
- Ralphs, Camille (Poetry Editor)
- Year Published:
- 2024
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780571384853
- Number of Pages:
- 96
- Publication Date:
- 14/03/2024
- Publisher:
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9780571384853