Midden Witch by Fiona Benson
Poetry Book Society Choice Summer 2025 collaboration we find James in ill

we find James in ill health but high spirits

” Katharine Towers

you can always flog it

'In the middle of the last century

Midden Witch by Fiona Benson<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Summer 2025</b> collaboration we find James in illThe thrilling story of the healers, artists and prodigies once persecuted as witches from the three time T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted poet. In her thrilling fourth collection, Midden Witch, Fiona Benson enters the world of familiars, fables and hedge magic and focuses on the persistent superstition the fear and false knowledge that was witchcraft. Telling tales of imagined transformations and spell casting, these poems present a litany of artists,