And If I Go With Child?
Reimagining the Mysteries of Tam Lin
by Charlotte Hussey
Release date: 1 February, 2024
RITONA is pleased to announce the publication of And If I Go With Child? : Re-imagining the Mysteries of Tam Lin, by poet Charlotte Hussey.
‘His boneless fingers bend
to conjure newborn shapes
from perturbed clouds of matter,
a slippery, pink brood they fall
all around, or from me?
I wake, hands crossed
over my heart.’
Through twenty-seven poems, Charlotte Hussey explores the initiatory potential of the ancient Scottish faery story, “The Ballad of Tam Lin.”
The ballad tells the tale of a woman’s haunting encounter with a figure trapped by the Faerie Queen. In And If I Go With Child?, Charlotte Hussey becomes the story itself, and speaks beautifully in her poems of the power of redemptive love.
Specifications:
5.5 in x 8.5 in, perfect bound, matte cover, 76 black&white interior pages on cream paper.
Ordering Information:
And If I Go With Child releases into the world 1 February, 2024, and will retail for 12 US. Before its date of publication, it can be ordered for 10 US. All pre-ordered copies are shipped by the publication date before regular orders are shipped.
In addition, RITONA has bundled several poetry books together to celebrate the publication of And If I Go With Child. These include:
And If I Go With Child, by Charlotte Hussey
Kaleiodoscopic Forests, by Rune Kjær Rasmussen
Faunalia, by Alice Fulmer,
If In Ruins We Must Live, by Christopher Scott Thompson
Baedd and Other Poems, by Twm Gwynne
Enchanting The Shadowlands, by Lorna Smithers.
These six books can be ordered together for $42.00 US (they normally retail together for $64 US — save $22!) Please note that all books are shipped together at the release of And If I Go With Child.
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