Ten Poets Tell You Their Favourite Ghost Story Vic Pickup these are women who refused

these are women who refused to be silenced

which began in a poor family forty years earlier

capturing the tragic story of the man who created it

Nina Mingya Powles

tracing an arc through illness

Ten Poets Tell You Their Favourite Ghost Story Vic Pickup these are women who refusedOne need not be a Chamberto be Haunted When a poet turns to the subject of ghosts, its as much conjuration, or spectral evocation, as it is a story. We have gathered here ten in one slim book ten possible summoning spells, primed to plant sounds and images deep in the ear and eye. Would you risk reading them aloud? Be careful repetition is a kind of incantation. And the ghosts in these lyric tales are as angry as they are mournful as they are cold