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After You Were, I Am

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After You Were, I Am

By: Camille Ralphs
Narrated by: Camille Ralphs
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In After You Were, I Am, charged moments from history collide with our own godless modern world. Read by the author, the recording is divided into three sections - ingenious rewritings of canonical prayers, dramatic monologues from the Pendle witch trials of 1612, and the divine tragedy of the Elizabethan magus John Dee - obsess over individual human characters and how our past informs (and informs on) our present.

Ralphs's style is utterly distinctive; she is a modern metaphysical, tapping into a haunting, era-spanning utterance enlivened by the electric pulse of wordplay and imaginative conceit. This is poetry that in comprehending the past manages to make of it something utterly original and contemporary.

©2024 Camille Ralphs (P)2024 Faber & Faber
European Poetry World Literature Magic Users Magic Witchcraft
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