The Submissive by Eleanor Tennyson

Eleanor Tennyson's fixation on seduction and power reshapes contemporary lyric with subversive glamour. These poems question the ethically familiar, jolting the reader off well-trodden paths into an undergrowth where the ruinous, the sacred, and the profane glint and starve in uneasy proximity. Desire rattles through the scrub, fragmenting and reassembling like a fresco of splendour and decay. It grows our appetite again for the magic of poetry.