Malkin (The Emma Press Picks): An Ellegy in 14 Spels: 5 - Softcover

Camille Ralphs

 
9781910139301: Malkin (The Emma Press Picks): An Ellegy in 14 Spels: 5

Synopsis


A book of poems about one of Britain s most famous witch prosecution, the Pendle Witch Trials.

Malkin is a vivid evocation of the trials of the Pendle Witches in 1612. The sequence of poems is delivered in the form of epitaphic monologues, with the accused men and women eerily addressing the reader with their confessions and pleas. Strikingly, poet Camille Ralphs has employed the technique of free spelling throughout the monologues, bringing out new meanings in familiar words and encouraging the reader to immerse themselves in the world of the poems.

Fully illustrated with woodcut-style drawings from Emma Wright.

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About the Author

Camille Ralphs started in Stoke, and has studied in lancaster, Cambridge and now Oxford. She is a senior poetry editor at The Missing Slate, and was 2014 s Cambridge editor-inchief of The Mays Anthology. Some of her earlier writing can be found in EarthQuiet (Tower Poetry, Oxford, 2013) and elsewhere.

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