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ISDAL

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14 September 2023
128 pages
9781035015061
Imprint: Picador

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A poet of tremendous imaginative range, artistic vision, and accomplishment
Susannah Dickey’s bloodthirsty for marriage made me think of Alice Notley in its urgency and playfulness. But Dickey is more surreal, more vivid; there are more dead gerbils. These are poems that scorch the earth with their originality and then write out of the ashes.
A rare talent, and certainly one to watch.
Using the real-life case of an unidentified woman’s body found in Norway as a jumping off point, this brilliantly realised first collection by the novelist Susannah Dickey is a multilayered investigation into the ethics of the true crime genre