Something In Nothing

a narrative sequence of poems with echoes of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood

The collection weaves together the lives of various fairytale characters in a contemporary setting to explore universal issues, in particular the denial of evil – the “something in nothing” of the collection’s title.

At the heart of the sequence is the story of the serial killer Bluebeard and the Luminous Girl. Other characters include the elderly couple Beauty and Beast, the Slavic witch and ex-goddess Baba Yaga, a non-magical Godmother and a useless angel. By using fairy tales, these poems allow us a safe place to study the darkness. The poems are elemental and yet personal, out of time and yet terribly current. We are not part of Bluebeard’s and Baba Yaga’s world, but we could be.

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