Summon - Spotlight: Poetry (Spotlight Books) - Softcover

Elizabeth Ridout

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912408422 ISBN 13: 9781912408429

Publisher: Myriad Editions, 2020

Synopsis

'This dazzling series shows that if the barriers can be vaulted there is true beauty to be had from the lesser-walked streets of literature. These works are both nourishing and inspiring, and a gift to any reader.' -- Kerry Hudson

The experience of living with the adventures and griefs of bipolar disorder forms the focus for this remarkable collection of poetry.

Ridout uses the language of the fairy story and visceral images of the female form and femininity to explore how personal trauma and instability makes their mark on the wider world. Different voices and twisted accounts of the body and mind are combined with the mythological and the esoteric to create striking, beautifully unsettling and unusual poems each a celebration of the extremes of being human.

SPOTLIGHT is an Arts Council England-supported collaboration between Myriad, Creative Future and New Writing South to discover, guide and support marginalised and under-represented writers.

In the same series: Stroking Cerberus by Jacqueline Haskell; Memories of a Swedish Grandmother by Sarah Windebank; Summon by Elizabeth Ridout; Crumbs by Ana Tewson-Bozic and Cora Vincent by Georgina Aboud.

About this title

About the Author

Elizabeth Ridout has published her poetry and reviews in Agenda, where she was recently Broadsheet Poet, and in various other publications online. She studied English Literature at Oxford University, and she won a Creative Futures Literary Award in 2017. She lives in Tunbridge Wells.

Edition details

• Publisher: Myriad Editions
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912408422
• ISBN 13: 9781912408429
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64