Sadly, once I started living off my writing I found it hard to go back to poetry. I think poetry is a good thing for any writer to try their hand at because it really teaches you how to edit, how to make every single word work as hard as it can. Have you always written in multiple genres?ĭaisy Johnson: When I first started studying writing I wrote poetry and loved its sparseness. Roberto Rodriguez-Estrada: One of the reasons I fell in love with your stories is the poetic texture of the language you use. Considering the bounty of material, I was eager to I speak to Johnson about language, nightmares, the horror genre, and the role of animals in her fiction.
In this extraordinary debut, Johnson explodes the myth of Oedipus and, from the remains, creates a singular and powerful story that burrows in the psyche and refuses to leave.ĭiscovering Johnson’s writing felt like meeting a literary kin. She recalls their private vocabulary, a runaway boy who lived with them for that brief time and the water creature they had spent years watching out for: the Bonak. A cryptic phone call sets Gretel on a hunt for Sarah to find her, she will need to recover long buried memories of their final winter on the river. Abandoned in foster care as a teen, she has neither seen nor heard from her mother in sixteen years, calling hospitals and mortuaries for any sign of her existence.
She grew up on the canals of Oxfordshire with her mother, Sarah, and the two lived a wild, reckless life, inventing a language of their own. In Everything Under, Gretel - a lexicographer - has devoted her life to words. Her novel, Everything Under, is equally - if not more - ambitious. These stories are as daring and unsettling as her writing, which features innovative uses of diction and sentence structure, in addition to sensuous description.
Johnson proved to be a fearless writer in her collection of feminist tales, Fen. I n Daisy Johnson’s fiction language and nature come alive, humans experience uncanny metamorphoses, and our biggest fears may take the shape of creatures living in the water.
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