I was planned but my twin wasn't.
My father got home from work
and said 'Honey,
let's try for a poet.'
Our book of the week is our Autumn Recommendation: Fetch by Colin Bramwell, published by And Other Stories.
In Celtic folklore a fetch is a shadowy doppelganger that appears from the Otherworld, portending the beholder’s fate. Your fetch ‘fetches’ you to the afterlife, willingly or otherwise.
Bramwell’s poetry uses the fetch as a model to explore a number of overlapping binaries – between the reader and the poem, most of all. Fetch also meditates on the differences between music and speech, the sacred and the profane, the written and the real, humanity and nature, Scots and English.
PBS's Meg says: "Bramwell's wise and often entertaining verse illuminates the world of the poet and worlds beyond that, too."
Order Fetch here, with 25% off for PBS members.