And If I Go With Child?

<p>RITONA is pleased to announce the publication of <em>And If I Go With Child? : Re-imagining the Mysteries of Tam Lin</em> by poet Charlotte Hussey.</p><p class=ql-align-center><em>'His boneless fingers bend</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>to conjure newborn shapes</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>from perturbed clouds of matter</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>a slippery pink brood they fall</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>all around or from me?</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>I wake hands crossed</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>over my heart.'</em></p><p>Through twenty-seven poems Charlotte Hussey explores the initiatory potential of the ancient Scottish faery story The Ballad of Tam Lin.</p><p>The ballad tells the tale of a woman's haunting encounter with a figure trapped by the Faerie Queen. In <em>And If I Go With Child?</em> Charlotte Hussey becomes the story itself and speaks beautifully in her poems of the power of redemptive love.</p><p><br></p>