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.
| ISBN: | 9780571384853 |
| Publication date: | 7th March 2024 |
| Author: | Camille Ralphs |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 72 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets Poetry by form Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) |