Reimagining the Mysteries of Tam Lin

by Charlotte Hussey

RITONA is pleased to announce the publication of And If I Go With Child? : Re-imagining the Mysteries of Tam Lin, by poet Charlotte Hussey.

‘His boneless fingers bend
to conjure newborn shapes
from perturbed clouds of matter,
a slippery, pink brood they fall
all around, or from me?
I wake, hands crossed
over my heart.’

Through twenty-seven poems, Charlotte Hussey explores the initiatory potential of the ancient Scottish faery story, “The Ballad of Tam Lin.”

The ballad tells the tale of a woman’s haunting encounter with a figure trapped by the Faerie Queen. In And If I Go With Child?, Charlotte Hussey becomes the story itself, and speaks beautifully in her poems of the power of redemptive love.

Specifications:

5.5 in x 8.5 in, perfect bound, matte cover, 76 black&white interior pages on cream paper.

Ordering Information:

And If I Go With Child released into the world 1 February, 2024, and retails for 12 US.

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