There's a Witch in the Word Machine
A new collection from the author of 'The Panopticon'
Published on 6. September 2018
96 pages
978-1-78885-104-6 (ISBN)
Description
There's a Witch in the Word Machine, is a collection that underpins Jenni Fagan's entire approach to words. Her spell poems are portraits of people, lovers and cities: Paris, New York, Edinburgh, Detroit, LA, and San Francisco. The excerpts of her Truth poem are a political response to great uncertainty in the world right now.
This collection is an exploration of words as spells, incantations, curse and solace.
This collection is an exploration of words as spells, incantations, curse and solace.
Reviews / Votes
'For Fagan, writing is a visceral activity, a reconnection with the physical rather than a flight away from it. These are earthy, elemental poems... [a] powerful collection' * Herald * 'A new Jenni Fagan publication is my cue to log off, disconnect the landline, ignore the doorbell and let words transport me to a place of necessary beauty and kinder wildness ... She is, truly, one of the very best writers we have, in these mad islands' -- Niall GriffithsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Birlinn General
File size
0,61 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78885-104-6 (9781788851046)
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Jenni Fagan
There's a Witch in the Word Machine
Book
09/2018
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
€32.38
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Person
Jenni Fagan is an award-winning author, poet, screenwriter, essayist and a playwright, and was writer in residence at the University of Edinburgh. In 2013 Jenni was the only Scottish writer to be on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list. She is the author of The Panopticon (2012), The Sunlight Pilgrims (2015) and her first poetry collection The Dead Queen of Bohemia was published by Polygon in 2016, followed by There's a Witch in the Word Machine (2018).
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- There's a Witch in the Word Machine
- Spell for Hope and Renewal
- Natural Born Itinerant
- Spell for One Who Dreams They are in a Vast Red Room
- Backing Dancers of White Rabbits in Suits
- Sunday Afternoon
- Spell for the Futility of Longing
- Spell for Waking in the Museum of the Lost Generation
- Spell for Loneliness in Paris
- Spell Written in a Square
- An Old Fashioned Courtship
- I Fall in Love All Day
- Spell for One Who Feels as if They Will at Any Second Take Flight
- My House is Not My House
- Want
- Gertrude and Alice
- I
- Spell for a Woman in Waiting
- Do You Remember ?
- The Bones of the Witch's Tree
- Ode to Unconditional Love
- Gringo's Whiskers
- Hackney
- Spell for Someone Eternally Restless
- Living with Dharma
- Tales of the Old Country
- Spell for When You Cannot Breathe in Paris for a Day
- Swan
- Bangour Village Hospital
- Spell for a Stomach that Cannot Keep Food
- She is Not the Cat's Mother
- Spell for God
- Spell for Bellevue Street
- You Know
- Spell for Someone Who Had Not Dreamt of a Unicorn Lately
- It's the Silence That Gets to You
- Spell for Something to Covet
- O.C.D.
- Spell for Someone with a Feather Tattoo and Illicit Thoughts
- Spell for Earthbound Angels
- St Bert
- I Want to Be the Kind of Woman
- On Loving Men with Beards
- We Are Edinburgh
- I Do Know This
- The First Time
- Addict
- Sentient Being
- It Wasn't Nice the Way You Conducted the Orchestra
- It Doesn't Always End Well
- Responding to Life in a Secret Squirrel Universe
- Death in Sednaya
- Holding Yourself with Dignity
- Spell for Angels in Paris
- Acknowledgements
