Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: International Non-Fiction, Uncategorized, Adult
ISBN: 9781787330818
Published: January 2019
Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Page Extent: 112
Format: Trade Paperback
RRP 345.00

Vertigo & Ghost

Fiona Benson

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**WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2019**
**WINNER OF THE ROEHAMPTON PRIZE FOR BEST POETRY COLLECTION 2019**

Violence 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 disturbing contemporary world is exposed, in which violent acts against women continue to be perpetrated on a daily - hourly - basis.

The book shifts, in its second...

About the Author

Fiona Benson

Fiona Benson

Fiona Benson lives in Devon with her husband and their two daughters. She has published three previous collections of poetry, all of which were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize: Bright Travellers, which won the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry’s Prize for First Full Collection, Vertigo & Ghost, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize and won both the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and Ephemeron, which was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the London Hellenic Prize.

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