Citadel

The poems in Citadel are temporal harmonies written by a composite 'I', brought together by a rupture in time as the result of ambiguous, traumatic events in the lives of two women, Juana of Castile and the poet, separated by almost five hundred years.

About the author

Martha Sprackland is a writer and editor from Merseyside, now living between London and Madrid. She was co-founder and poetry editor of Cake magazine, was assistant poetry editor for Faber, and is one of the founding editors of multilingual arts magazine La Errante. She is the editor of independent press Offord Road Books. In 2018 she joined Poetry London as associate editor, and in 2019 became poetry editor. She teaches for the Poetry School. Martha's debut pamphlet, Glass As Broken Glass, was published by Rack Press in 2017; a second, Milk Tooth, was published by Rough Trade Books in 2018. This is her first collection.

Summary

Shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2020Poetry Book of the Month - The Telegraph May 2020Juana of Castile (commonly referred to as Juana la Loca - Joanna the Mad) was a sixteenth-century Queen of Spain, daughter of the instigators of the Inquisition.

Product details

• Authors: Martha Sprackland
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781789621020
• ISBN: 978-1-78962-102-0
• No. of pages: 64
• Series: Pavilion Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Poetry, POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh