{"product_id":"9781787335240","title":"Midden Witch","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Benson, Fiona \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 01\/05\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 96 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781787335240,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thrilling story of the healers, artists and prodigies once persecuted as witches – from the three-time T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poetIn her thrilling fourth collection, Midden Witch, Fiona Benson enters the world of familiars, fables and hedge-magic and focuses on the persistent superstition – the fear and false knowledge – that was witchcraft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTelling tales of imagined transformations and spell-casting, these poems present a litany of artists, dreamers and outcasts and a study of their ostracisation. The poet looks at how gifted, sometimes troubled, individuals – generally healers, artists, prodigies and almost always women – became scapegoats, victims of societal paranoia and persecution, and were hounded for centuries, often to a gratuitously violent public execution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Midden Witch, these women speak back to us with dark humour, insight and real herbal knowledge. Reckoning with middle age, marginalisation, perimenopause and a steady, unstoppable vanishing, this troubled codex of remedies, spells and stories speaks to human fear in the face of the unknown, and a drive to protect our loved ones that transcends all rational thought. At play in the language of archival accounts of witchcraft, this is a dark, eclectic spell-book that witnesses the end-days of magic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55199142347125,"sku":"9781787335240","price":13.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781787335240.jpg?v=1742982163","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781787335240","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}