Bird-Woman

Em Strang's poetry reminds us that right dwelling is not just a theoretical or ideo-logical concern; it must also be rooted in the gravity that structures everything, rich in the old pagan knowledge and unafraid to find a home for what we do not fully understand. Bird-Woman is a delicious collection, a book to be savoured in the fullest sense. --John Burnside "Em Strang's poems are shamanic, in that they restore to us abandoned mythologies. Nothing is stable in this very real world, where houses can become birds, where the animal lies shallowly below the surface of the human, where poems are haunted with what is unsaid. An 'old throat from the other side', full of bewilderment, concern, passion and beauty." --Jen Hadfield

Author: Em Strang

Publisher: Shearsman Books

Publication Date: Oct 14, 2016

Number of Pages: 80 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1848614942

ISBN-13: 9781848614949