Constructing a Witch by Helen Ivory
Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Recommendation F Starik and the wonders of natural

and the wonders of natural creation everywhere

or suddenly known

she creates a seething

Of Peter’s previous work Kelvin Corcoran has written: ‘I turn the new pages and am in bliss with the pertinence and grace of the living language’

vexed love for it

Constructing a Witch by Helen Ivory<br><b>Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Recommendation</b> F Starik and the wonders of naturalDespite the Devil being conceived to direct human baseness away from our goodly selves, there has always been sin in the world. The Bible has it that woman is the weaker vessel, therefore her inferior ways could easily let the Devil into the house, and into her oh so corruptible body and thus the story begins. Helen Ivorys new collection Constructing a Witch fixes on the monstering and the scapegoating of women and on the fear of ageing femininity.