Erl King's Bride
by
Margot K. Juby
“Turn back, turn back, thou pretty bride,
Within this house thou must not bide,
For here do evil things betide” Grimm
In Margot Juby’s fifth collection full rein is given to her appetite for the gothic and fabulous. Here is a world in which nobody is safe and nothing is quite what it seems. The Erl-King, snatcher of children; Bluebeard, killer of wives; the Sleeping Beauty, the Snow Queen, witches, vampires, trolls, mermaids and selkies feature in poems that are at times gory and brutal. This is not a place for the faint-hearted.
Margot K. Juby is a veteran of the small presses; appearances in print have included Secker & Warburg, Bloodaxe Books, Tribune, The Scotsman, Bęte Noire, The Rialto, The Wide Skirt, Iron etc., plus TV and radio. Her fourth booklet, The Tactful Foetus (Sol Publications) was published in 1995. Her three previous publications are collected in Triple Whammy (Braquemard 1996).