The Supposed Huntsman Ann Joyce Part love story

Part love story

Published November 2020

The contributors are Ben Borek

Welsh-raised and Bristol-based

writing on her “Literary  Influences” mentions how learning to read at a very early age opened up a “wonderland” that never closed

The Supposed Huntsman Ann Joyce Part love storyIn her debut full length collection of poems, The Supposed Huntsman, Fowley creates spaces that blur the lines of gender, species, and self: Every animal is deadly even the shape shifter. Fowley uses incantatory anaphora to enact endless transformations, becoming by turns a motley, plume lit teacher creature and a bear longing, like a bro, for a maiden in a tree. Drawing inspiration from Brothers Grimm fairy tales and troubadour tradition, Fowleys