I Call Upon the Witches

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What if the witch was never the villain, but the woman who refused to disappear?In I Call Upon the Witches, Chloe Hanks reclaims the figure of the witch from centuries of fear, distortion, and patriarchal mythmaking. Through lyrical, incisive poetry, she traces the evolution of the witch across history and imagination-bringing together archetypes that have long been separated, misunderstood, or silenced.These poems move between past and present, myth and reality, rage and tenderness. They illuminate the witch not as a monster, but as a mirror: of female autonomy, of inherited trauma, of bodies and voices deemed dangerous simply for existing outside prescribed roles. Hanks reimagines the witch as healer, outcast, lover, rebel-human, contradictory, and fiercely alive.At once a celebration and a reckoning, I Call Upon the Witches exposes the tragic history behind the witch's image while offering a radical re-enchantment. It is a book about women in their full complexity, about the cost of nonconformity, and about the power of rewriting the stories that shaped us.Chloe Hanks is an emerging poet from Worcestershire whose work dismantles familiar narratives and reframes female archetypes through a feminist lens. Her poetry has appeared in multiple anthologies, and she was the winner of the V Press Prize for Poetry in 2020. She is currently completing an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham.

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Pages: 48, Paperback, Sunday Mornings at the River