Bewitched

by Kate Garrett

Some sounds have to be heard.
Some love triangles become squares.
Some girls believe in magic.

BEWITCHED is an anti-romance tale of tangled hearts (and other parts) told through poetry and flash fiction; a spell cast with a pinch of grit and a splash of rock n roll.

BEWITCHED is the sixth release of the Pankhearst Singles Club. Small, but perfectly formed.

42 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 30, 2014

About the author

Kate is a writer, mama, and witch who plays tabor & bodhran, is obsessed with history & folklore, reads tarot, makes things, keeps fish, does whatever the cat says, and haunts 800 year old churches.

Reviews

[Rae Gee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kate Garrett's “Bewitched” is like a good piece of music. In fact, it's the kind of book where you dig out your favourite album and listen to it while reading through the luscious words of this piece. You can hear the music, feel the emotions, smell the incense, and see the magic because the writing of “Bewitched” is so vivid. Despite its tiny size, this is the kind of book many people dream of writing. The world inside these forty or so pages is beautifully crafted, a work of glorious art, and I can't praise it enough. This is the punk rock of poetry, the spiralling words and ideas that so many lyricists would love to be able to create. It's dark and gritty but, at the same time, light and flowing. Gorgeous, beautiful work! I do hope that we'll be seeing more from Garrett in the coming months and years because I need another fix! If you like your contemporary poetry and your flash fiction, this is definitely one for you. Give it a go and let it draw you in to its spell!

[Andie · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you're like me and sometimes shy away from books described as 'poetry' due to metaphor filled half sentences, but want to access contemporary poetry then this is for you.

In a classic tale of boy meets girl/boy meets old girlfriend/ girl meets girl with some Wicca thrown in(yes it does have a touch of Shakespeare about it), narrative's (inner and explanatory) are drawn in what we'd recognise as a poem format, then to a straight forward flash chapter, the syntax gets carved up as we draw to the end of the story,just as the relationships do.

[Michele Brenton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Accessible, exciting, captivating. Bewitched alternates between poetry and prose and it is a triumph that one quickly stops noticing this as one is drawn into the lives and stories of the characters in Bewitched. It is some kind of literary magic when a reader forgets they are reading and it is doubly so when achieved via poetry. Bewitched is included in the collection from Pankhearst: Generic Airport Thrilller which makes me the happy owner of this in both ebook and paperback.

[Angelika Rust · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a very pleasant surprise. I wouldn't have thought it possible, but Kate Garrett manages to weave a story by giving the tiniest glimpses of a handful of connected lives. With bits and pieces of poetry and flash fiction, she spins a story that somehow, despite the missing pieces, is more complete than it would have been had she simply told the entire tale beginning to end. Thank you, Kate. You're inspiring.

[Kiley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful and bewitching! I read this from the beginning to end without stopping....The emotions conveyed through the pages were simmering beneath the surface causing you to delve beneath the layers and nuances and emerge breathless and wanting more.