In Her Jaws

In her debut collection, Rosamund Taylor explores the female perspective, reimagining history, astronomy, sorcery, and queer love. With lyric sorcery, she conjures encounters with wild creatures, offering a glimpse of the fabulous. Her poems possess a talismanic quality, inviting the reader to explore the erotic and the traumatic. Taylor's language, form, and imagery are fresh, creating a space between the uncanny and the familiar. Her poetry is a celebration of sexuality and feminism, addressing universals through the specifics of queer love and the experiences of women.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 80 pages
Publication date: 19 May 2022
Publisher: Banshee Press

In her debut collection, Rosamund Taylor dares us across thresholds and invites us to glimpse the world as we've never seen it before. She boldly charts a journey of survival and transformation with poems on history reimagined, astronomy, sorcery, wild landscapes, talismanic creatures, and queer love. Taylor explores what it means to live in a female body that is not defined by lack, or want, or perpetual suffering, but is possessed by a real and defined sense of erotic autonomy. These poems burn from the inside out with possibility, and there is magic, mystery, and reclamation at every turn.

In Her Jaws is a landmark debut that extends and deepens the Irish tradition of writing the female perspective, while also breaking new ground. Praise for In Her Jaws:

A book of astonishments whose poems gaze towards the night sky and all that stirs in the dark below, swooping the reader through mysteries of desire and discovery. Taylor's voice is by turns tender, sharp, luminous; her poems are wondrous.

In these haunting, simmering metamorphoses, Rosamund Taylor's imagination is both intrepid and tender. Spanning the erotic and the traumatic, these poems root through the fibrous dark of our psyche. In Her Jaws is a breath-taking debut.

Taylor's poems possess a talismanic quality. With lyric sorcery, she conjures encounters with a chorus of wild creatures: spectres and lovers, selves and others. Beneath the seductive gleam of her poetry lies an invitation to glimpse the fabulous.

In Her Jaws will hold you in thrall.

Rosamund Taylor's stunning debut reignites the lyric tradition with poems that movingly and daringly explore pain and despair, desire and belonging while evoking the more-than-human world anew. Her voice is ever original and e.

ISBN-13: 9781838312640