Fiona Benson

The thrilling story of the healers, artists, and prodigies once persecuted as witches - from the three-time T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet. Midden Witch is the Poetry Book Society Choice. In 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...

The third collection from one of Britain's most exciting and celebrated contemporary poets SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE The poems in Ephemeron deal with the short-lived and transitory—whether it's the brief, urgent lives of the first section, 'Insect Love Songs', the abrupt, anguished, physical and emotional changes during secondary school, as remembered...