Ten Poets Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae sees ten more poets spirited away to other worlds, returning to tell their tales of pixies, elves, faeries and goblins.
The goblin men are here again, with their shrill repeated cry: “Come buy, come buy!” And the pixies, the pooka, the gnomes and naiads, the boggarts and brownies – European folklore fizzes with tales of wicked and winsome creatures of the woods. And while in many ways their power has waned – what is there for them in the urban, post-industrial, rubbish-strewn present? – our susceptibility to it has not. Those who go in search risk never quite returning, or coming back changed…
Contributors
Rowan Carteret, Tim Dooley, Kate Falvey, Alec Finlay, Naomi Foyle, Rosie Hart, Dominic Lyne, Wendy Manning, Yvonne Reddick, Natalie Shaw
