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After You Were, I Am

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SKU:
9780571384853
UPC:
9780571384853
Author:
Ralphs, Camille (Poetry Editor)'
'ISBN:
9780571384853'
'Publisher:
FABER & FABER '
'Language:
English'
'Pages:
96 pages'
'Format:
Paperback'
'Published Date:
14/03/2024'
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Author: Ralphs, Camille (Poetry Editor)

Poetry

Published on 14 March 2024 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 96 pages
129 x 197 x 9 | 122g

This extraordinary debut heralds the arrival of a major new talent.

In After You Were, I Am, charged moments from history collide with our own godless modern world. The book's three sections - ingenious rewritings of canonical prayers, dramatic monologues from the Pendle witch trials of 1612, and the divine tragedy of the Elizabethan magus John Dee - obsess over individual human characters and how our past informs (and informs on) our present. Ralphs's style is utterly distinctive; she is a modern metaphysical, tapping into a haunting, era-spanning utterance enlivened by the electric pulse of wordplay and imaginative conceit. This is poetry that in comprehending the past manages to make of it something utterly original and contemporary.