Midden Witch by Fiona Benson
Poetry Book Society Choice Summer 2025 collaboration Where the reader becomes complicit

Where the reader becomes complicit

“the deviceless avenue / notified by trees

'In the middle of the last century

Kiew’s poetry is alive and thronging with the interconnected nature of things – and the formative forces of nurture

Midden Witch by Fiona Benson<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Summer 2025</b> collaboration Where the reader becomes complicitThe 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,