Midden Witch by Fiona Benson
Poetry Book Society Choice Summer 2025 Andrew Geary depressive and hilarious

depressive and hilarious

The myth around him survived thanks to the inclusion of fifteen poems from Defense of the Idol in the groundbreaking anthology Antología de poesía chilena nueva from 1935

Carol Rumens

I recommend sad thing angry

coming from a place of hurt and love

Midden Witch by Fiona Benson<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Summer 2025</b> Andrew Geary depressive and hilariousThe thrilling story of the healers, artists and prodigies once persecuted as witches from the three time T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted poet. In her thrilling fourth collection, Midden Witch, Fiona Benson enters the world of familiars, fables and hedge magic and focuses on the persistent superstition the fear and false knowledge that was witchcraft. Telling tales of imagined transformations and spell casting, these poems present a litany of artists,