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Book SynopsisNamed a Most Anticipated Book of Spring 2021 by
Publishers Weekly Winner of the 2019 Forward and Roehampton Prizes,
Vertigo & Ghost offers a searing reimagining of Greek myths of sexual violence that crackles with rage, energy, and empathy.
Trade Review"
Vertigo & Ghost explodes into furious life with a series of poems and fragments about the Greek god Zeus.… [These are] jagged, staccato poems that shoot down the pages like lightning bolts.… [A]n addictive, thrilling, sickening experience." -- John Self - Guardian
"Misogynistic violence, ancient myth and modern rage confront each other in moving and dynamic verse." -- Maria Crawford - Financial Times
"[This] extraordinarily moving collection is a bold confrontation of violence against women.
Vertigo & Ghost is one of the darkest, bravest and most unsettling collections I have read in a while." -- Kate Kellaway - Observer
"A tour-de-force.… [
Vertigo & Ghost] has generated a lot of (justified) buzz.… [P]oems of lasting power." -- Tristram Fane Saunders - Telegraph
"Benson here shows us the real, terrifying world in musical, natural scenes which are immediately memorable, whose dark fruit is brewed from sorrow and the condensing pressures of inescapable love." -- Declan Ryan - White Review
