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Girl, Swooning
swoon
/swuːn/
verb
1. faint, especially from extreme emotion. 'The girl swooned and had to lie down'
2. be overcome with adoration, or other strong emotion. 'She was swooning over Him'
Etymology traces to the Old English word 'geswōgen', meaning 'overcome'
On the eve of her wedding, a young woman wrestles with transitions: from adolescence to adulthood, from longing to holding, from womb to birth, from life to death, from darkness to enlightenment, from waking to dreaming, from love to grief.
There is only one choice: death or change.
In 2023 Imogen Wade won the National Poetry Prize with her poem 'The Time I Was Mugged in New York City', gaining her a wide audience. Finally, we have her stunning debut collection, Girl, Swooning, in which Wade looks at womanhood, love, death and religious experience.
Distinctive, beguiling and compelling from the start, Girl, Swooning marks the emergence of a thrilling new voice.
/swuːn/
verb
1. faint, especially from extreme emotion. 'The girl swooned and had to lie down'
2. be overcome with adoration, or other strong emotion. 'She was swooning over Him'
Etymology traces to the Old English word 'geswōgen', meaning 'overcome'
On the eve of her wedding, a young woman wrestles with transitions: from adolescence to adulthood, from longing to holding, from womb to birth, from life to death, from darkness to enlightenment, from waking to dreaming, from love to grief.
There is only one choice: death or change.
In 2023 Imogen Wade won the National Poetry Prize with her poem 'The Time I Was Mugged in New York City', gaining her a wide audience. Finally, we have her stunning debut collection, Girl, Swooning, in which Wade looks at womanhood, love, death and religious experience.
Distinctive, beguiling and compelling from the start, Girl, Swooning marks the emergence of a thrilling new voice.
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Published March 5, 2026
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Imogen Wade
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Imogen Wade (b. 1998) is a poet from England. She won the National Poetry Competition for 'The Time I Was Mugged in New York City', and her debut poetry collection Girl, Swooning will be published by Corsair.
Imogen Wade (b. 1998) is a poet from England. She won the National Poetry Competition for 'The Time I Was Mugged in New York City', and her debut poetry collection Girl, Swooning will be published by Corsair.
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Certainly the most anticipated of debut collections for me, I wasn’t surprised by what it packs. Having read older versions of some of these poems, Imogen’s approach to drafting shows why this collection takes you in: her work is concise, decisive and, so, doesn’t play around without reason; if a word isn’t needed it isn’t there. For very obvious reasons, I’d say that this is a book of elegies, considering it is dedicated to her late grandmother, but there is often this novel-like quality here, like a tale being told but not in a tell-all manner, and nothing is ever too explicit; and yet, there are life lessons, unusual humour, a Kathryn Maris resemblance, brilliant metaphors and hyperbole, borrowed lines, a ‘Desire Poem’, and among other things ‘a definite red flag’ (p. 62).
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