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

Camille Ralphs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910139300 ISBN 13: 9781910139301

Publisher: Emma Press, 2015

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.

About this title

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Emma Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910139300
• ISBN 13: 9781910139301
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Emma Wright
• Number of pages: 36