Citadel - Martha Sprackland

Shortlisted For Costa Poetry Award 2020shortlisted For Forward Prize For Best First Collection 2020shortlisted For John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2021included In The Tls Books Of The Year 2020included In The Telegraphs Poetry Book Of The Month In May 2020juana Of Castile (commonly Referred To As Juana La Loca Joanna The Mad) Was A Sixteenth-century Queen Of Spain, Daughter Of The Instigators Of The Inquisition. Conspired Against, Betrayed, Imprisoned And Usurped By Her Father, Husband And Son In Turn, She Lived Much Of Her Life Confined At Tordesillas, And Left Almost Nothing By Way Of A Written Record. The Poems In Citadel Are Written By A Composite I Part Reformation-era Monarch, Part Twenty-first Century Poet Brought Together By A Rupture In Time As The Result Of Ambiguous, Traumatic Events In The Lives Of Two Women Separated By Almost Five Hundred Years.