White Teeth, Red Blood

Selected Vampiric Verses

Various Authors, Claire Kohda

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Pushkin Press
02 December 2025

Poetry; Poetry anthologies; Short Stories Fantasy

Poems to make your blood run cold. Poems to make your heart beat faster. Poems to sink your teeth into...

Seductively sinister, both frightening and alluring, the undead have always been the perfect vessel for humanity's fears and desires. The poems in this collection of dark delights range across centuries and languages; poems that tell stories, offer warnings, and imagine life in the shadows, by writers such as Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson, Charles Baudelaire, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Ishmael Reed, and many more.

Contents include:

Chilling Tales - poems by Gottfried August

Burger, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Robert Southey, Anne Bannerman, John

Stagg, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rafael

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Dire Warnings - poems by Heinrich August Ossenfelder, John Keats, Henry Thomas Liddell, James Clerk Maxwell, Charles Baudelaire, Christina Rossetti, Madison Julius Cawein, Rudyard Kipling, Conrad Aiken, Edna St Vincent Millay, James Weldon Johnson

The Vampire Within - poems by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Walter Pater, Delmira Agustini, William Butler Yeats, Ishmael Reed, Dorothy Barresi, John Yau

By: Various Authors
Introduction by: Claire Kohda
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781805332640
ISBN 10: 1805332643
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 02 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Claire Kohda’s debut novel, Woman, Eating, was a book of the year in The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, BBC and HuffPost, and is now being adapted for TV. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in the East Side Voices anthology, the Virago collection Furies, and Electric Lit; and she has reviewed for the Guardian, TLS, FT and NYT.

Reviews for White Teeth, Red Blood: Selected Vampiric Verses

The vampire, for a writer, is an alluring figure... Loneliness, alienation, morality, mortality, humanity, inhumanity: all can be explored through the vampire * Claire Kohda *