- Published: 17 May 2022
- ISBN: 9781787333710
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 112
- RRP: $37.00
Ephemeron
- Published: 17 May 2022
- ISBN: 9781787333710
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 112
- RRP: $37.00
A new collection of Benson's wise and vivid work is a real occasion... exciting...fully inhabited and multi-faceted.
Fiona Sampson, Guardian
There have been a number of impressive reshapings of classical tales in recent years, and it is a bold poet who would risk comparison with Alice Oswald and Anne Carson, but Benson's 'Translations from the Pasiphaë' earns its place alongside their works.
William Wootten, Literary Review
There is a gorgeous, sunbleached quality to much of this writing, which stuns and scorches. It will be a pleasure to see which cycles of myth Benson takes on next.
Stephanie Sy-Quia, Times Literary Supplement
Vertigo & Ghost explodes into furious life ... poems that shoot down the pages like lightning bolts...
Guardian
Vertigo & Ghost knocked the breath from me. Such furious, fierce, ecstatic poems, at once brutal and heartachingly tender; I lay awake at night unable to stop thinking about them.
Liz Berry
This extraordinarily moving collection is a bold confrontation of violence against women. Vertigo & Ghost is one of the darkest, bravest and most unsettling collections I have read in a while.
Kate Kellaway, Observer
An exceptional achievement.
Paul Bailey, Literary Review