Constructing a Witch by Helen Ivory
Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Recommendation Simon & Schuster Jackson has taken the fourteenth-century

Jackson has taken the fourteenth-century Middle Dutch version of Brendan's voyage as the template for this engaging and spirited interpretation

from Agincourt to Arras

including a compelling chronicle of the devastating murder of Emmett Till

In their passage between America and England and the terrain of early motherhood

Constructing a Witch by Helen Ivory<br><b>Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Recommendation</b> Simon & Schuster Jackson has taken the fourteenth-centuryDespite the Devil being conceived to direct human baseness away from our goodly selves, there has always been sin in the world. The Bible has it that woman is the weaker vessel, therefore her inferior ways could easily let the Devil into the house, and into her oh so corruptible body and thus the story begins. Helen Ivorys new collection Constructing a Witch fixes on the monstering and the scapegoating of women and on the fear of ageing femininity.