The Wrong Side of the Looking Glass

by Mari Ellis Dunning, Natalie Ann Holborow

In this collaborative poetry pamphlet, Natalie Ann Holborow and Mari Ellis Dunning stir together myth, legend, fairytale, and iconic female characters to cast a book-length spell and bewitch, as well as beguile, the reader. With intelligence and imagination they question stereotypes, delve into archetypes, and dissect what we think we know, transmuting old stories, through gorgeous language and idiosyncratic imagery, into new and startling tales. Marginalised female voices are brought to the fore, their inner worlds expertly and sensitively realised. Unsettling, evocative, and full of surprise, this is a rich and entirely unique undertaking by two of the brightest young voices in poetry today.

43 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 7, 2020

Reviews

[E.M. Duffield-Fuller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Both Holborow and Dunning explode the traditional conceptions of a broad array of fictionalised characters, bringing new life to old stories with wit, empathy and imagination. A lot of fun! (And a fantastic front cover to boot!)

[Tôpher Mills · Rating 5 out of 5]

Like Anne Sexton and Angela Carter combined, this opalescent duo conjure these wayward feminist poems from myths and fairy with even a sprinkle from the Wizard of Oz. Delightfully wrong in all the right ways, this book will glamour you with its ineffable charms.