This new book, The Witch in the Word Machine, is a collection that underpins Jenni Fagan's entire approach to words. Her spell poems are portraits of people, lovers and cities: Paris, New York, Edinburgh, Detroit, LA, and San Francisco. The excerpts of her Truth poem are a political response to great uncertainty in the world right now.
This collection is an exploration of words as spells, incantations, curse and solace.
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There's a witch in the word machine spell-casting THERE'S A WITCH IN THE WORD MACHINE
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(@PolygonBooks, 6 September 2018, ebook, 96 pages, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveInc)
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This is my first time reading the author's poetry. I really loved this collection. The poems are fresh, vibrant and a little bizarre. They are different from the kind of poems usually published and all the better. The poems explore what I'd consider universal themes but in a dazzling and often surprising way.
