Beskrivning

Shortlisted for the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Collection, Elisabeth Sennitt Clough returns with a fierce, luminous exploration of power, desire and survival.Sidewinder is a poetic memoir that traces a relationship which begins as fascination and descends into coercion. Through a sequence of vivid, cinematic poems, Sennitt Clough examines the illusion of agency – how teenage girls believe they are choosing, when in truth they are being chosen.Set against the soundtrack and grit of 1990s Britain