Midden Witch by Fiona Benson
Poetry Book Society Choice Summer 2025 collaboration Eliot Prize and the Griffin

Eliot Prize and the Griffin International Prize

” Katharine Towers

Kiew’s poetry is alive and thronging with the interconnected nature of things – and the formative forces of nurture

you can always flog it

Midden Witch by Fiona Benson<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Summer 2025</b> collaboration Eliot Prize and the GriffinThe thrilling story of the healers, artists and prodigies once persecuted as witches from the three time T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted poet. In her thrilling fourth collection, Midden Witch, Fiona Benson enters the world of familiars, fables and hedge magic and focuses on the persistent superstition the fear and false knowledge that was witchcraft. Telling tales of imagined transformations and spell casting, these poems present a litany of artists,