Synopsis
A Guardian and Irish Times Book of 2023
The much-anticipated debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Susannah Dickey, on the subject of our cultural obsession with true crime.
ISDAL is a timely interrogation of the true crime genre. In the first of its three parts, we follow the flirty co-presenters of a podcast about the mystery of 'Isdal Woman', whose burnt remains...
Details
14 September 2023
128 pages
9781035015054
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A poet of tremendous imaginative range, artistic vision, and accomplishmentKayo Chingonyi, author of A Blood Condition
Susannah Dickey’s bloodthirsty for marriage made me think of Alice Notley in its urgency and playfulness. But Dickey is more surreal, more vivid; there are more dead gerbils. These are poems that scorch the earth with their originality and then write out of the ashes.Will Harris
A rare talent, and certainly one to watch.The Sunday Times
Using the real-life case of an unidentified woman’s body found in Norway as a jumping off point, this brilliantly realised first collection by the novelist Susannah Dickey is a multilayered investigation into the ethics of the true crime genreThe Guardian