Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson
PBS Spring Wildcard 2019 Jenny Lewis Like its predecessor volumes

Like its predecessor volumes

Adrienne Rich

humour and love

rolls of elastic one white one black

subterranean drums and visionary apprehension in which – to quote Twin Peaks

Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson <br><b>PBS Spring Wildcard 2019</b> Jenny Lewis Like its predecessor volumesViolence hangs over this book like an electric storm. Beginning with a poem about the teenage dawning of sexuality, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into a long sequence of graphic, stunning pieces about Zeus as a serial rapist, for whom woman are prey and sex is weaponised. These are frank, brilliant, devastating poems of vulnerability and rage, and as Zeus is confronted with aggressions both personal and historical, his house comes crumbling down. A