How to burn a woman
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How to burn a woman

  1. 85 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

How to burn a woman

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781780375724
eBook ISBN
9781780375731
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Description
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Domonic
  6. Nessie to the unaccompanied minor
  7. Playing it cool
  8. The flirt
  9. Hand of Glory
  10. Christopher’s rules for skimming stones, which are also rules for living
  11. The women who’ve loved you
  12. A Field Journal of Witches
  13. Travel poem
  14. Devils
  15. The affair
  16. Giles Corey
  17. Thornfield
  18. Knife
  19. May
  20. A spell for the departed
  21. Sarah Good
  22. A spell to honour your foremothers
  23. You can’t always get what you want
  24. Rodney
  25. Motorcycle jacket
  26. The neighbour of Ursula Kemp
  27. Hot rod
  28. Dean
  29. Coming second
  30. Merga Bien
  31. A spell for the rejected
  32. Mothers of sons
  33. Show me again
  34. Eunice Cole
  35. Men
  36. A spell for preparing to sleep alone in an unfamiliar house
  37. Things men want to hear you say
  38. Whisky
  39. Watching the red kite trying to fly
  40. Phone sex
  41. Anne Askew
  42. Men of the rack
  43. Fletcher Mathers
  44. Listening to Rainymood in Waverley Station
  45. A spell for obedience
  46. Janet Horne
  47. Big hands
  48. Library
  49. A spell for the unbelieved
  50. How to burn a woman
  51. Foreplay
  52. Acknowledgements
  53. About the Author
  54. Copyright