The Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic Verse

Emma Dai'an Wright, Nisha Bhakoo

• Publisher: The Emma Press
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781912915378
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

The Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic Verse is haunting, romantic, and full of dark doorways and strange spaces which readers will get thoroughly lost in. It's a hand in a velvet glove, ready to grasp you by the elbow and lead you through an array of ravishing and heart-racing encounters. This anthology engages deeply and playfully with the rich and unsettling tradition of gothic literature from which these poems emerge, and updates it for a 21st century readership. The featured poets twist traditional stories, set the rule books on fire, and know that to truly surprise and unnerve, you may have to traverse some wild, remote places...

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Other Titles from the Emma Press
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Introduction
• Contents
• Urbane Gothic
• Under the Bridge
• Bluebeard Possibilities
• Animation
• Devouring the Glory
• The Sorceress
• My Shadow
• Exorcism
• Golem - Citations Needed
• My Hotel
• The Doll
• The Ordeal
• The Coffin Calendars
• Balloonist
• Evil Eye
• Exodus
• (turn to page _)
• Bucket & Spade
• The other bride
• Eliza’s Mother
• The Promise
• The Doll Ritual
• Closing Number
• Opening the Witch Bottle
• The Other in the Mirror
• peat woman brain
• Joan of Arc
• Liminal
• The Watchmaker’s House
• Pumpkin Pie, I Tell No Lie
• Acknowledgements
• About the Editor
• About the Poets
• About the Emma Press
• Also from the Emma Press
• Back Cover