Our book of the week is our Summer 2026 Recommendation: Folkish by Kym Deyn, published by Nine Arches Press.
"Nature is alive and furious in the North of England that Deyn reveals – here time collapses and the attention of the multiple speakers is dragged back to prehistory, folk history, the tangible and muddy history of earth and time..." — PBS Selector Victoria Kennefick
In Folkish, Kym Deyn's "trickster figure masquerading as a poetry collection", we hear from the devil, ghosts, saints, and worms, to name just a few. Spirits of the North are called forth; the pervasive, blanketed haunting of austerity on seaside towns; the County Durham legend of The Lambton Worm; the trickster Braag, who evades rent and dreams of "a make-believe time where money didn't mean victory".
Playful, queer, and endlessly inventive, Folkish is "wicked, tricky and bold...a potent and spellbinding achievement that doesn’t hold back." (Victoria Kennefick)
Order your copy of Folkish here, with 25% off for PBS members.