Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson
PBS Spring Wildcard 2019 Spike Milligan hope for healing

hope for healing

' – Jeet Thayil

indignant consciousness translated instantly into words and images that blend close

constant loathsome creature

This new translation combines her two collections

Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson <br><b>PBS Spring Wildcard 2019</b> Spike Milligan hope for healingViolence 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