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The Word-Historical Moment in Contemporary Poetry: On Walter Ancarrow’s “Etymologies”
Camille Ralphs explores the use of etymology in contempory poetry, especially through the lens of Walter Ancarrow’s “Etymologies.”
Camille Ralphs
Camille Ralphs’s first full collection of poems, After You Were, I Am, will be published by Faber in 2024. She is the author of three pamphlets, Malkin: An ellegy in 14 spels (The Emma Press, 2015; short-listed for the Michael Marks Award), Uplifts & Chains (If a Leaf Falls Press, 2020) and Daydream College for Bards (Guillemot Press, forthcoming 2023); writes the Averse Miscellany column for Poetry London; and conducts the “Poem’s Apprentice” interview series for Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal. She is poetry editor at The Times Literary Supplement.