Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson
PBS Spring Wildcard 2019 Jenny Lewis Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich

noted his ‘fine exact craftsmanship: no word or syllable wasted

He lives in Kingston

’ – Pascale Petit

rolls of elastic one white one black

Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson <br><b>PBS Spring Wildcard 2019</b> Jenny Lewis Adrienne RichViolence 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