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Pertinent, nuanced, fiery, fast-paced and exhilarating, the poems in Feverfew few possess a complex
lyric palette . Anna Saunders weaves together personae of myth such as Phaethon, Jupiter, Pan, and
Aphrodite with a clear-voiced contemporary disquiet about a planet threatened by human-led climate
destruction and passionate, nakedly confessional poems.
‘Surely these white stars will heal ?’ the protagonist of the title poem of FeverFew asks, and the answer is
proven to be ‘yes’ in a sparkling and powerful collection in which poetry acts as magic and medicine.
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Extract
What I Learnt from the Owl
how to hunt in silken plumage
tooled up with talons and hooks
how to split the seam of the night
with saw‐tooth wings
how to consume all I kill
yet stay hungry.
What I learnt from the owl
how to haunt sleep
my head – a phantom full moon
how to be outcast and avenger
spectre and seraphim, winged god and ghoul
bladed angel dropping from the sky.
What I learnt from the owl
how to voice my darkness
in hisses, in shrieks
how to drop from the heights,
heart‐shaped face falling to earth
as if love itself were plummeting.
Thank you, Anna Saunders and Fly on the Wall Press
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About the author
Anna Saunders is the author of ‘Communion’, ‘Struck’, ‘Kissing the She Bear’, ‘Burne Jones and the
Fox’ and ‘Ghosting for Beginners.’
She has had poems published in numerous journals and anthologies.Anna holds a Masters in Creative
and Critical Writing from The University of Gloucestershire and is the CEO and founder of
Cheltenham Poetry Festival.
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Author Link
https://annasaunderswriter.co.uk/
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Book Links
Via Indigo Dreams – https://www.indigodreams.co.uk/as-feverfew/4595124139
Via Anna (signed) – https://annasaunderswriter.co.uk/
Waterstones – https://www.waterstones.com/book/feverfew/annasaunders/9781912876266
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