Bramble King (Fisher Catherine)(Paperback / softback)

The Bramble King is full of darkly resonant tales, ingenious parables, curiously haunted rooms and palaces, and beautifully observed images of the natural world. A prolific, popular and prize-winning author of fantasy fiction, Catherine began her career as a poet, and Seren published her early volumes: Immrama, The Unexplored Ocean and Altered States. The Bramble King is Fisher's first collection of poems since 1999. The book opens with a series dedicated to imaginary planets, each with unique properties: sometimes sinister, such as 'Hades' where "the sky flames all day and all night"; or as unsettling as 'Babel' where "there are voices everywhere, singing, crying and no one listens"; or as humorously surreal as 'Gravitas' where "each arm takes centuries to rise". The next three-part poem is a narrative focused on the life of a girl who seems to live in a corridor of glass and is
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