Witch

by Damian Walford Davies

With the narrative pull of a novel and the vibrancy of a play, this collection offers a thrilling portrait of a Suffolk village in the throes of the witchcraft hunts of the mid-17th century. The poems in this collection are dark spells, compact, and moving, delivered by those most closely involved in the "making" of a witch. The speakers--from priest Thomas Love and the villagers, who slowly succumb to suspicion and counter-accusation, to the witch hunter Francis Hurst and the "witch" herself--authentically conjure a war-torn society in which religious paranoia amplifies local grievances to fever pitch.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854115790
• ISBN13: 9781854115799
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Seren Books
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"