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alexandramilne's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
casparb's review
people are having issues with this one which seem a little out of the air. I like Rebecca I think there's a reason she's where she is & seems to stomp about as one of poetry's occult experts. Notes taken from Sharon Olds here, as one would hope. Also I think she's not being given enough credit in the mire of Goodreads reviews for her work on rendering but perhaps just me
magicgardener's review
4.0
"take that dead ugly body into your bed
it hates you"
I heard Rebecca Tamás speak at Stanza in St. Andrews. I really enjoyed her readings and how she expressed modern aspects of witchcraft as wild. I like her style of writing, how she uses no punctuation. It gives her work an endless stream of consciousness quality.
There were moments in her poetry that shocked me and made me feel sick. I was reading them mostly on the bus. Either/or she captured the emotion of disgust and horror in the ways that witchcraft has been and still is being treated.
I will pass this collection of poems onto friends :)
it hates you"
I heard Rebecca Tamás speak at Stanza in St. Andrews. I really enjoyed her readings and how she expressed modern aspects of witchcraft as wild. I like her style of writing, how she uses no punctuation. It gives her work an endless stream of consciousness quality.
There were moments in her poetry that shocked me and made me feel sick. I was reading them mostly on the bus. Either/or she captured the emotion of disgust and horror in the ways that witchcraft has been and still is being treated.
I will pass this collection of poems onto friends :)
blila's review
2.0
In theory, Witch sounded interesting because of the themes it explores surrounding gender and sexuality. In reality, Tamás’ style just isn’t for me (that said, I’m going to read some Kae Tempest soon so we’ll see what I think of that).
lornesausage's review
3.0
I found some of the poems in this collection very difficult to understand, however others I found so powerful and I adored them so, so much that I would still rate it highly overall! My favourites were probably Penis Hex, the Witch and the Suffragette, Witch Scold, Witch Earth, Witch City, Witch Mars and Witch Volcano. I loved the recurring exploration of history being quote ‘old and gross’ (hehe) through the oppression of marginalised peoples, capitalism, war and climate change, and the potential of the witch, women, and those society has historically deemed as ‘outsiders’ to create positive political change in the future.