{"product_id":"millie-woodrow-venus-in-the-forest-1","title":"Millie Woodrow, Venus in the Forest","description":"\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA sensual and spellbinding tale of loss and love. Millie Woodrow’s Venus in the Forest wades knee-deep into the organic matter of poetic language with a dark and arching tenderness. Intertwining myth and fantasy, Woodrow traces shapeshifting bodies around the ghosts of grief and memories. The skin of words in Venus are dripping wet with salt and earth – finding solace in the heart of the forest. A mesmerising read.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Alessia Fenwick\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWoodrow is a poet with as much dirt under her nails as ink. She buries, exhumes, plants, germinates with the wild restlessness of both young girls and ancient gods, girls who vow to ‘become \/ a dark red god among the hyacinths.’ In the lush thicket of these pages, inflected with folk horror and archaeology, the air tastes of wet earth; quenching, satisfying, dark. Venus in the Forest is as enchanting and invigorating as moonlight, as digging, as fucking, ‘undone under starlight’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Ellora Sutton,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLittle Bitch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnimated by the sharp realities of sorrow and loss, Woodrow has created a series of subtle, transformative pathways through the fantastical landscapes of grief, their living world of trees and water, stones and plants and wildlife. These are poems of songlike composition and fine, dramatic imagining - hard to believe this is a debut, so poised and charged is its achievement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Jane Draycott, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eauthor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Kingdom \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is wild, romantic memory work\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e­ — Barney Norris,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e playwright and author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFive Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMillie Woodrow is a poet and writer from Wiltshire. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford’s Creative Writing MSt. Her work has been published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcumen, Anthropocene, The Passionfruit Review, Motherlore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Poetry Lighthouse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She also runs poetry events in the South West with her company Close Poetry. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVenus in the Forest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is her first pamphlet. You can find her online \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e@milliewoodrowwriter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seedlings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58476445008207,"sku":"PK2554","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/3068\/6031\/files\/PKB_52222.jpg?v=1786717677","url":"https:\/\/publicknowledgebooks.com\/products\/millie-woodrow-venus-in-the-forest-1","provider":"Public Knowledge","version":"1.0","type":"link"}