Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson
PBS Spring Wildcard 2019 Spike Milligan ' – Jeet Thayil

' – Jeet Thayil

struggling for poise

she finds moments of grace or consolation in memory

This new translation combines her two collections

effortlessly spans the Atlantic

Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson <br><b>PBS Spring Wildcard 2019</b> Spike Milligan ' – Jeet ThayilViolence hangs over this book like an electric storm. Beginning with a poem about the teenage dawning of sexuality, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into a long sequence of graphic, stunning pieces about Zeus as a serial rapist, for whom woman are prey and sex is weaponised. These are frank, brilliant, devastating poems of vulnerability and rage, and as Zeus is confronted with aggressions both personal and historical, his house comes crumbling down. A