Grandmother’s House is a debut pamphlet of poems by Sylvie Jane Lewis.
Recasting a history of displacement through the language of fairy tales, Grandmother’s House celebrates family bonds between women, and the imaginative possibilities of the home. Centred around the life of the poet’s Polish grandmother, these poems explore the inherent magic and absurdity at play in daily life.
By turns nostalgic and uncanny, several poems embody voices from folklore, literature, and film, sitting uneasily between the terrains of the domestic and the feral. The sequence’s creaturely presences, from Cinderella’s mice to Red Riding Hood’s wolf, affirm the home as an inhabited space and site for storytelling.
ISBN: 9781915968197
Paperback, 24 Pages
