Constructing a Witch by Helen Ivory
Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Recommendation F Starik Of Peter’s previous work Kelvin

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’

are diverse in form

with deep undercurrents: of embodied and disembodied spiritualities

or suddenly known

the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life

Constructing a Witch by Helen Ivory<br><b>Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Recommendation</b> F Starik Of Peter’s previous work KelvinDespite 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.