
A Game of Swans
Janet Wainscott
she begins
from ‘The swan maiden writes her memoir’
after the fairy tale childhood
she begins
in the humdrum quotidian middle
What do you do when you find yourself trapped? By circumstance, by other’s expectations?
From the finger bone of an ancestor to a Leonardo da Vinci portrait, from the dining room of a rural pub to the real life of folk-tales, A Game of Swans weaves myth and modernity seamlessly through each other, asking what it means to be restrained, and what it might take to be free. Janet Wainscott’s debut collection stares out from the undergrowth, claws hidden in plain sight.

A Game of Swans
Janet Wainscott
Available from 18 May 2023
ISBN: 9781738582402
paperback; 92 p.
rrp $25
Available wherever good books are sold, or direct from SVP by using the form below: