Crocodile by Mari Ellis Dunning
Rack Press
Published 11th September 2025.
Mari Ellis Dunning is a poet and novelist. She lives in Aberystwyth. Her last collection of poems, Pearl and Bone, was selected as Wales Arts Review”s Best of 2022. Her debut novel, Witsh (Honno) is out now. Crocodile explores domestic violence and coercive control through the eyes of victim, reptilian perpetrator and the justice system. “These poems don”t shy away from hard facts. These are scenes from a horror movie. These are scenes from the 1950s. These are scenes from the world we”re living in right now. These polyphonous poems are voices at a protest march, strong in their oneness, furiously, exhaustedly casting their spells and blessings.†(Mslexia on Pearl & Bone)
Mari Ellis Dunning is a poet and novelist. She lives in Aberystwyth. Her last collection of poems, Pearl and Bone, was selected as Wales Arts Review”s Best of 2022. Her debut novel, Witsh (Honno) is out now. Crocodile explores domestic violence and coercive control through the eyes of victim, reptilian perpetrator and the justice system. “These poems don”t shy away from hard facts. These are scenes from a horror movie. These are scenes from the 1950s. These are scenes from the world we”re living in right now. These polyphonous poems are voices at a protest march, strong in their oneness, furiously, exhaustedly casting their spells and blessings.†(Mslexia on Pearl & Bone)
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