White Teeth, Red Blood
Selected Vampiric Verses
$22.95
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
2 December 2025
Summary
Poems to make your blood run cold. Poems to make your heart beat faster. Poems to sink your teeth into…
Seductively sinister, both frightening and alluring, the undead have always been the perfect vessel for humanity’s fears and desires. The poems in this collection of dark delights range across centuries and languages; poems that tell stories, offer warnings, and imagine life in the shadows, by writers such as Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson, Charles Baudelaire, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, I…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781805332640 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1805332643 |
| Author: | Claire Kohda, X. Various Authors |
| Publisher: | Pushkin Press |
| Imprint: | Pushkin Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 2 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 308g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 230mm x 535mm |
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Critics Review
The vampire, for a writer, is an alluring figure… Loneliness, alienation, morality, mortality, humanity, inhumanity: all can be explored through the vampire * Claire Kohda, author of Woman, Eating *
A delightful surprise, packed with classics and new discoveries * Stylist *
This chronologically-ordered collection provides a fascinating path through the history of the vampire in verse, charting not only the evolution of the vampire, but also the evolution of poetry, illustrating its shifting forms and preoccupations * Poetry News *
Claire Kohda
Claire Kohda’s debut novel, Woman, Eating, was a book of the year in The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, BBC and HuffPost, and is now being adapted for TV. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in the East Side Voices anthology, the Virago collection Furies, and Electric Lit; and she has reviewed for the Guardian, TLS, FT and NYT.
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