And If I Go With Child?

RITONA is pleased to announce the publication of And If I Go With Child? : Re-imagining the Mysteries of Tam Lin, by poet Charlotte Hussey. 'His boneless fingers bend to conjure newborn shapes from perturbed clouds of matter, a slippery, pink brood they fall all around, or from me? I wake, hands crossed over my heart.' Through twenty-seven poems, Charlotte Hussey explores the initiatory potential of the ancient Scottish faery story, "The Ballad of Tam Lin." The ballad tells the tale of a woman's