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White Teeth, Red Blood

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Poems to make your blood run cold. Poems to make your heart beat faster. Poems to sink your teeth into...Seductively sinister, both frightening and alluring, the undead have always been the perfect vessel for humanity's fears and desires. The poems in this collection of dark delights... Read More
Format: Hardback
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White Teeth, Red Blood

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Poems to make your blood run cold. Poems to make your heart beat faster. Poems to sink your teeth into...

Seductively sinister, both frightening and alluring, the undead have always been the perfect vessel for humanity's fears and desires. The poems in this collection of dark delights range across centuries and languages; poems that tell stories, offer warnings, and imagine life in the shadows, by writers such as Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson, Charles Baudelaire, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Ishmael Reed, and many more.

Contents include:

Chilling Tales - poems by Gottfried August Burger, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Robert Southey, Anne Bannerman, John Stagg, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rafael Campo

Dire Warnings - poems by Heinrich August Ossenfelder, John Keats, Henry Thomas Liddell, James Clerk Maxwell, Charles Baudelaire, Christina Rossetti, Madison Julius Cawein, Rudyard Kipling, Conrad Aiken, Edna St Vincent Millay, James Weldon Johnson

The Vampire Within - poems by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Walter Pater, Delmira Agustini, William Butler Yeats, Ishmael Reed, Dorothy Barresi, John Yau

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781805332640

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 11 September 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pushkin Press

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Claire Kohda

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Claire Kohda’s debut novel, Woman, Eating, was a book of the year in The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, BBC and HuffPost, and is now being adapted for TV. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in the East Side Voices anthology, the Virago collection Furies, and Electric Lit; and she has reviewed for the Guardian, TLS, FT and NYT.

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