And If I Go With Child?, by Charlotte Hussey

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Reimagining the Mysteries of Tam Lin

RITONA is pleased to announce the publication of And If I Go With Child? : Reimagining the Mysteries of Tam Lin, by poet Charlotte Hussey.

‘His boneless fingers bend
to conjure newborn shapes
from perturbed clouds of matter,
a slippery, pink brood they fall
all around, or from me?
I wake, hands crossed
over my heart.’

Through twenty-seven poems, Charlotte Hussey explores the initiatory potential of the ancient Scottish faery story, “The Ballad of Tam Lin.”

The ballad tells the tale of a woman’s haunting encounter with a figure trapped by the Faerie Queen. In And If I Go With Child?, Charlotte Hussey becomes the story itself, and speaks beautifully in her poems of the power of redemptive love.

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Reimagining the Mysteries of Tam Lin

RITONA is pleased to announce the publication of And If I Go With Child? : Reimagining the Mysteries of Tam Lin, by poet Charlotte Hussey.

‘His boneless fingers bend
to conjure newborn shapes
from perturbed clouds of matter,
a slippery, pink brood they fall
all around, or from me?
I wake, hands crossed
over my heart.’

Through twenty-seven poems, Charlotte Hussey explores the initiatory potential of the ancient Scottish faery story, “The Ballad of Tam Lin.”

The ballad tells the tale of a woman’s haunting encounter with a figure trapped by the Faerie Queen. In And If I Go With Child?, Charlotte Hussey becomes the story itself, and speaks beautifully in her poems of the power of redemptive love.

Charlotte Hussey

Growing up on a sand bar fronted by the Atlantic and backed by a tidal marsh, Charlotte Hussey writes poetry to express her love of nature and things sensuous. Teaching medieval literature at Montreal’s Dawson College, she has published Rue Sainte Famille and Glossing the Spoil. Her poems can be found in The Awen Anthology of Eco-spiritual Poetry; Arc Magazine, Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, Eternal Haunted Summer, and Gingerbread House.

She’s reachable at charlotte.hussey@mcgill.ca

  • Publisher : Ritona
    Published : 1 February 2024
    Format : Perfectbound
    Pages : 76
    Size : 5.5 in x 8.5 in or 140 mm x 216 mm

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