Omschrijving
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.
Camille Ralphs is a poet and critic, and an editor at the Times Literary Supplement. Her poems and essays have appeared in magazines including the New York Review of Books, The Poetry Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.