Constructing a Witch

Part of the Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival 2025!

Next Event
10th October 7:30pm
Event Finishes
10th October 8:30pm

About this event

Helen Ivory’s sixth collection Constructing a Witch fixes on the monstering and the scapegoating of women and on the fear of ageing femininity. The witch appears as the barren, child-eating hag; she is a lustful seductress luring men to a path of corruption; she is a powerful or cantankerous woman whose cursing must be silenced by force.

These bewitching poems explore the witch archetype and the witch as human woman and investigate witch tourism, the witch as outsider, cultural representations of the witch, female power and disempowerment, the menopause, and how the female body has been used and misunderstood for centuries.

Suitability: 12+ Timing: 1 hour, followed by book signing

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