Tamara Barnett-Herrin‘s writing has appeared in FENCE, Poetry Ireland Review, MAYDAY Magazine and Denver Quarterly. She is from London, and lives in Los Angeles. Tales of Ig is her first chapbook.
PRAISE:
In Tamara Barnett-Herrin‘s Tales of Ig we meet a speaker, an alter ego, a persona and anima who travels into the deep self and the selves who came before. Barnett-Herrin weaves myth and pop culture to interrogate female existence, to time travel while staying in the body. Or as Ig would say, “a good book will take you anywhere,/ especially so here.” This is an endlessly fascinating collection.
–Denise Duhamel
In Barnett-Herrin’s exhilarating debut, the unheimlich(‘un-homely / uncanny’) insists itself into the speaker’s world through the character of Ig. This work, where “the gruesome is a counterpoise / to the sentimental”, is playful, unsettling and poignant by turns. Be prepared for Ig to enter your mind and overstay her welcome.
–Shazea Quraishi
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