{"product_id":"folkish-by-kym-deyn-br-b-poetry-book-society-recommendation-summer-2026-b","title":"Folkish by Kym Deyn \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2026\u003c\/b\u003e","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished 23 April 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFolkish\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a trickster figure masquerading as a poetry collection. Full of ghosts, worms, saints, and Northern English folklore,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKym Deyn\u003c\/span\u003e’s debut is playful, spirited and absolutely furious – moving between the alive, the legendary, and the haunted in endlessly inventive forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003eBetween deep time and mischief, Deyn’s poetry hungers and sharpens its spells – casting curses on bad landlords, exhaustion and poverty. These poems know intimately the coexistence of darkness and light, the mirror’s slippery surface, and all that moves like magic in the depths of forest and root, containing multitudes – “a million sipping leaf-mouths, now quiet and peaty”. Here, poetry is an act of wild transformation – boundless and entirely distinctive, unafraid of reconfiguration and re-enchantment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003ePraise for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFolkish\u003c\/span\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003e'Queer and disconcerting, Kym Deyn’s debut is chock-full with poems which tear at both the heart and the guts. They inhabit a world where dark eyes scour graveyards for breakfast and saints are as likely to spit as to pray. This is poetry as hauntology, where England’s North is alive with untrustworthy and beguiling pasts, presents, and futures.\u003cspan\u003e Folkish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a glorious exhibition of witchy play and wit, where the Devil prowls and Deyn never fails to answer back.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Rachel Mann\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003eCover artwork by \u003c\/span\u003eLetty Wilson \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nine Arches Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57202371527038,"sku":"9781916760363","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1331\/9925\/files\/1775142081.jpg?v=1775142161","url":"https:\/\/www.poetrybooks.co.uk\/products\/folkish-by-kym-deyn-br-b-poetry-book-society-recommendation-summer-2026-b","provider":"The Poetry Book Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}