A sensual and spellbinding tale of loss and love. Millie Woodrow’s Venus in the Forest wades knee-deep into the organic matter of poetic language with a dark and arching tenderness. Intertwining myth and fantasy, Woodrow traces shapeshifting bodies around the ghosts of grief and memories. The skin of words in Venus are dripping wet with salt and earth – finding solace in the heart of the forest. A mesmerising read.
— Alessia Fenwick
Woodrow is a poet with as much dirt under her nails as ink. She buries, exhumes, plants, germinates with the wild restlessness of both young girls and ancient gods, girls who vow to ‘become / a dark red god among the hyacinths.’ In the lush thicket of these pages, inflected with folk horror and archaeology, the air tastes of wet earth; quenching, satisfying, dark. Venus in the Forest is as enchanting and invigorating as moonlight, as digging, as fucking, ‘undone under starlight’.
— Ellora Sutton, author of Little Bitch
Animated by the sharp realities of sorrow and loss, Woodrow has created a series of subtle, transformative pathways through the fantastical landscapes of grief, their living world of trees and water, stones and plants and wildlife. These are poems of songlike composition and fine, dramatic imagining - hard to believe this is a debut, so poised and charged is its achievement.
— Jane Draycott, author of The Kingdom
This is wild, romantic memory work
— Barney Norris, playwright and author of Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
About the author
Millie Woodrow is a poet and writer from Wiltshire. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford’s Creative Writing MSt. Her work has been published in Acumen, Anthropocene, The Passionfruit Review, Motherlore and The Poetry Lighthouse. She also runs poetry events in the South West with her company Close Poetry. Venus in the Forest is her first pamphlet. You can find her online @milliewoodrowwriter.
This pamphlet is printed and bound by Seedlings, with a cover illustrated by Ben Skinner. Please allow us a few days to make and ship your order, and understand any blemishes in the craft of printing and binding as part of the charm.
A sensual and spellbinding tale of loss and love. Millie Woodrow’s Venus in the Forest wades knee-deep into the organic matter of poetic language with a dark and arching tenderness. Intertwining myth and fantasy, Woodrow traces shapeshifting bodies around the ghosts of grief and memories. The skin of words in Venus are dripping wet with salt and earth – finding solace in the heart of the forest. A mesmerising read.
— Alessia Fenwick
Woodrow is a poet with as much dirt under her nails as ink. She buries, exhumes, plants, germinates with the wild restlessness of both young girls and ancient gods, girls who vow to ‘become / a dark red god among the hyacinths.’ In the lush thicket of these pages, inflected with folk horror and archaeology, the air tastes of wet earth; quenching, satisfying, dark. Venus in the Forest is as enchanting and invigorating as moonlight, as digging, as fucking, ‘undone under starlight’.
— Ellora Sutton, author of Little Bitch
Animated by the sharp realities of sorrow and loss, Woodrow has created a series of subtle, transformative pathways through the fantastical landscapes of grief, their living world of trees and water, stones and plants and wildlife. These are poems of songlike composition and fine, dramatic imagining - hard to believe this is a debut, so poised and charged is its achievement.
— Jane Draycott, author of The Kingdom
This is wild, romantic memory work
— Barney Norris, playwright and author of Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
About the author
Millie Woodrow is a poet and writer from Wiltshire. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford’s Creative Writing MSt. Her work has been published in Acumen, Anthropocene, The Passionfruit Review, Motherlore and The Poetry Lighthouse. She also runs poetry events in the South West with her company Close Poetry. Venus in the Forest is her first pamphlet. You can find her online @milliewoodrowwriter.
This pamphlet is printed and bound by Seedlings, with a cover illustrated by Ben Skinner. Please allow us a few days to make and ship your order, and understand any blemishes in the craft of printing and binding as part of the charm.
