How to burn a woman

Author:   Claire Askew
Publisher:   Bloodaxe Books Ltd
ISBN:  

9781780375724


Pages:   80
Publication Date:   21 October 2021
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Claire Askew
Publisher:   Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Imprint:   Bloodaxe Books Ltd
ISBN:  

9781780375724


ISBN 10:   1780375727
Pages:   80
Publication Date:   21 October 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

9 Domonic 13 Nessie to the unaccompanied minor 14 Playing it cool 15 The flirt 16 Hand of Glory 18 Christopher's rules for skimming stones, which are also rules for living 20 The women who've loved you 22 A Field Journal of Witches 24 Travel poem 27 Devils 29 The affair 31 Giles Corey 32 Thornfield 33 Knife 35 May 37 A spell for the departed 38 Sarah Good 41 A spell to honour your foremothers 43 You can't always get what you want 44 Rodney 45 Motorcycle jacket 47 The neighbours of Ursula Kemp 49 Hot rod 50 Dean 52 Coming second 54 Merga Bien 55 A spell for the rejected 56 Mothers of sons 58 Show me again 60 Eunice Cole 62 Men 64 A spell for preparing to sleep alone in an unfamiliar house 66 Things men want to hear you say 68 Whisky 69 Watching the red kite trying to fly 70 Phone sex 72 Anne Askew 74 Men of the rack 76 Fletcher Mathers 78 Listening to Rainymood in Waverley Station 79 A spell for obedience 80 Janet Horne 81 Big hands 82 Library 83 A spell for the unbelieved 85 How to burn a woman 89 Foreplay 93 Acknowledgements

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In this book of spells, Askew stirs together smart, modern poems about whisky, heartbreak and male-female relationships with a darker sequence about our foremothers who were persecuted as witches. How to burn a woman is full of hard-won wisdom and beauty. The vibe is Kim Addonizio joins a coven. -- Clare Pollard Claire Askew doesn't mince words: she revels in them, pretty or dirty, and hammers them into strange and kenspeckle amulets, talismans against loss, death, isolation.... Looking into the future with 'no innocence', haunted by the past, the allusive, mysterious work at the core of this collection will take Claire Askew far. -- Pippa Little * The Lake * This changes things is, admirably, a feminist collection - deeply concerned with women's lives, in all their strength and vulnerability. But Askew has a capacious eye; in the slow-burning second half of the book... some strong poems documenting travel... suggest a poet whose next steps are attractively difficult to predict... Askew is the real thing, and everyone should buy this debut. -- Kathryn Gray * Magma *


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Claire Askew was born in 1986 and grew up in the rural Scottish Borders. She has lived in Edinburgh since 2004, and holds a PhD in Creative Writing & Contemporary Women's Poetry from the University of Edinburgh. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The Guardian, Poetry Scotland, PANK, The Edinburgh Review and Be The First To Like This: New Scottish Poetry (Vagabond Voices, 2014), and have been selected twice for the Scottish Poetry Library's Best Scottish Poems of the Year. In 2013 she won the International Salt Prize for Poetry, and in 2014 was runner-up for the inaugural Edwin Morgan Poetry Award for Scottish poets under 30 for an earlier version of her first book-length collection, This changes things, which was published by Bloodaxe in 2016. She was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award for a second time in 2016. This changes things was also shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award 2016, the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for First Full Collection 2017 and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017. Claire has been a Scottish Book Trust Reading Champion (2016/7), a Jessie Kesson Fellow (2017) and the Writer in Residence at the University of Edinburgh (2017-2019). Also a novelist, her award-winning Edinburgh-based DI Birch series is published by Hodder & Stoughton. Her second full-length collection, How to burn a woman, is published by Bloodaxe in 2021.

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