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You can order Siren here
PRAISE for Siren:
Ralleigh follows in the wake of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad and Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife, among others, foregrounding the women of mythology […] adding more diverse figures such as Sedna and Lilith.
Jenny He, Poetry London 105
Gita Ralleigh is a fierce and shining poet, unafraid to find resistance and beauty in the darkest places. In these wild, febrile poems, she overlaps myth, violence and enchantment until they gleam like scales. These are poems which will burn within you long after the page has been turned.
Liz Berry, The Republic of Motherhood
Gita Ralleigh’s Sirens are half woman half flight, half woman half saltwater, as per the dual nature of the myth. This ‘sonation of winging ghosts’ is a thrilling exploration of femininity, legends, violence and triumph. As ‘thunder djinns the air’, these sirens sing strident ‘for escape / for escape / for escape’.
Khairani Barokka, Ultimatum Orangutan
You can order A Terrible Thing here
PRAISE for A Terrible Thing
Ralleigh’s poems–fused with high drama, ancient wisdoms, commandments and clarion calls–feature fierce and fearless protagonists.
Sana Goyal, Poetry Birmingham Issue 6
‘This collection teems with awe-inspiring women and their songs of survival, its poems breaking loose and blooming in multiple languages. Ralleigh soars through wisdom traditions to find words that affirm unspeakable pain with immeasurable beauty.’
Nisha Ramayya, States of the Body Produced by Love
‘A Terrible Thing is studded with jewels of language, and a calm surface that belies the drama of the stories it tells. Her poems have a quiet power and assurance, daring you not to be won over to them. That they persuade so thoroughly is testimony to Ralleigh’s talent.’
Rishi Dastidar, Ticker-Tape, Saffron Jack