Claire Askew's electrifying second collection is an investigation of power: the power of oppressive systems and their hold over those within them; the power of resilience; the power of the human heart. It licks flame across the imagination, and rewrites narratives of human desire. It is a collection for anyone who has ever run through their life 'backwards/ in the dark, / with no map' – these bright poems illuminate the way. How to burn a woman throngs with witches, outsiders, and women who do not fit the ordinary moulds of the world. It is a collection which traces historic atrocities, and celebrates the lives of those accused of witchcraft with empathy, tenderness and rage. It lifts a mirror up to contemporary systems of oppression and, in language that is both vivid and accessible, asks hard questions of our current world. These poems also delve deep into love in all its forms: from infatuations to the bitter ending of relationships. They ask what it is we want, how we might go about getting it, and what its cost might be. How to burn a woman sweeps the world up in its arms and presents it: a rough bonfire of London buses, Salem streets, Edinburgh closes. Askew's astute, incisive language lifts from every page, throwing sparks.
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Table of contents
- Description
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Domonic
- Nessie to the unaccompanied minor
- Playing it cool
- The flirt
- Hand of Glory
- Christopher’s rules for skimming stones, which are also rules for living
- The women who’ve loved you
- A Field Journal of Witches
- Travel poem
- Devils
- The affair
- Giles Corey
- Thornfield
- Knife
- May
- A spell for the departed
- Sarah Good
- A spell to honour your foremothers
- You can’t always get what you want
- Rodney
- Motorcycle jacket
- The neighbour of Ursula Kemp
- Hot rod
- Dean
- Coming second
- Merga Bien
- A spell for the rejected
- Mothers of sons
- Show me again
- Eunice Cole
- Men
- A spell for preparing to sleep alone in an unfamiliar house
- Things men want to hear you say
- Whisky
- Watching the red kite trying to fly
- Phone sex
- Anne Askew
- Men of the rack
- Fletcher Mathers
- Listening to Rainymood in Waverley Station
- A spell for obedience
- Janet Horne
- Big hands
- Library
- A spell for the unbelieved
- How to burn a woman
- Foreplay
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright
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