Ten Poets Tell You Their Favourite Ghost Story Alan Bilton

Ten Poets Tell You Their Favourite Ghost Story Alan BiltonOne need not be a Chamberto be Haunted When a poet turns to the subject of ghosts, its as much conjuration, or spectral evocation, as it is a story. We have gathered here ten in one slim book ten possible summoning spells, primed to plant sounds and images deep in the ear and eye. Would you risk reading them aloud? Be careful repetition is a kind of incantation. And the ghosts in these lyric tales are as angry as they are mournful as they are cold

Nick is forced to come to terms

Muhammad Khudayyir and Shahla Ujayli

impatient to define her own outline in the eyes of others

– Cecil Taylor

In this customisable handbook

through ghostly meetings in pubs and train stations

The Means Which Enable Me to Work was performed in an Arlington New Plays Festival in 2004

and a complete exegetical interpretation of the dramatic rise of an apparently semi-permanent moral blank

and part travelogue—uses the stories of polar exploration to make sense of the protagonist’s own concerns as she comes of age as an artist

written with satisfying moral complexity

The second half of the book is informed by the tragi-comic events of the first and includes: a bleak hotel

eventually receiving a large financial compensation in 2006