Bibliograph

Myrtle, Ruth Wiggins

Type

Label

Myrtle, Ruth Wiggins

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Myrtle

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Ruth Wiggins

Summary

In her heady, debut pamphlet Myrtle, Ruth Wiggins celebrates the primal forces of nature and the human heart. Interweaving the ancient with the modern world, she explores fertility and death, in poems that are imbued with a subtle eroticism. There is a serious playfulness at work here too: a carnival stallholder battles with a spider, and a bored vegetarian contemplates life as a fox, while lovers fear death and separation as the gods look on in amusement. This free-wheeling and assured collection is full of dry humour and wisdom, and is by turns poignant, dark and full of zest

Target audience

adult

Classification