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Already awarded a prestigious Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Spring 2018, WITCH<\/i> is a strange, visceral debut which introduces a major new voice in British poetry. At a time when women are calling out misogyny and oppression, the witch has become a formidable symbol of female empowerment. Tam\u00e1s has skilfully channelled the zeitgeist in these remarkable poems, evoking the magical power of nature and merging it with the revolutionary potential of women’s voices.<\/p>\n
‘For me,’ says Tam\u00e1s, ‘the witch and her ability to change herself and the world through heightened magical language provided a form of poetry in which I could speak back, both into and against patriarchal history.’ ‘The witch,’ she adds, ‘is female power at its most multiple: raw, emotional, visceral, angry, funny and free.’
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\nPublisher Tom Chivers says, ‘Rebecca Tam\u00e1s is one of the most exciting and talented poets to emerge in recent years: fiercely intelligent, politically radical and darkly witty. To read her poems is to be unsettled and then transformed.’<\/p>\n
WITCH<\/i> launches at York Literature Festival on 20 March – the pagan festival of Ostara – followed by events in Newcastle (21 March) and London (23 March). Rebecca Tam\u00e1s will be appearing at summer literary events including Outspoken, Sheaf Poetry Festival (Sheffield), Bodmin Moor Poetry Festival and Port Eliot Festival.<\/p>\n
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‘My heart pounded as I read WITCH<\/i>; I felt as if Tam\u00e1s’s words were burning the page as I read. WITCH<\/i> is sexy, frightening, and cerebral at once; full of the weight of history, while also being witty, contemporary, and playful. What Tam\u00e1s does with language, and with the legacy of the witch, is thrillingly strange. She is the real deal.’
\nKatherine Angel, author of Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell<\/i><\/p>\n
‘Emerging from the gloom, in tar, grit and blood, WITCH<\/i> 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.’
\nRachael Allen, author of Kingdomland<\/i><\/p>\n
‘Sharp-witted, trenchant and bold, Rebecca Tam\u00e1s’ WITCH<\/i> awaken primordial parts of our being, releasing energy that had been mobilized towards repression. These spells and hexes reanimate historical female silence, demanding that we listen to all that had been kept latent for so long.’
\nNuar Alsadir, author of Fourth Person Singular<\/i><\/p>\n
‘WITCH<\/i> is the book of poems we need in 2019. WITCH<\/i> 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.’
\nDorothea Lasky, author of Milk<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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