Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson
PBS Spring Wildcard 2019 Spike Milligan constant loathsome creature

constant loathsome creature

Alison Smith

struggling for poise

The poems all tell stories which include a transformation – some inspired directly by the Metamorphoses and some completely new and of our time

Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson <br><b>PBS Spring Wildcard 2019</b> Spike Milligan constant loathsome creatureViolence 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