Dark Horse
The poems in Dark Horse are disruptive, even disturbing. The collection engages with taboos and myths surrounding self-harm, consequent journeys to unfamiliar, sometimes foreign spaces, and aspects of spiritual awareness and loss. Dark Horse offers a powerful distillation of experience and imagination that will be essential reading for any person who knows someone who has taken their own life.
ISBN 9781990983283 | 96 pages | 210 x 140mm | 2022 | Dryad Press, South Africa | Paperback
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Reviews
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"Dark Horse is the best collection of poems I have read in years. One brilliant poem follows another. I finished it in one sitting and then started at the beginning again."
- FINUALA DOWLING
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"In her compelling second volume of poetry, Michèle Betty navigates the dark corners of the soul. In three sections - Verso, Inversus and Verbatim - the scars of loss are described with finely tuned perception. Substantial spiritual awareness is packed into these well-crafted poems. The reader is made aware of a symmetry between grief and acceptance as the poet uncodes foreign landscapes and the inner landscape of the self."
- JOAN HAMBIDGE