Firebird explores the fires of destruction and rebirth, inviting the reader to consider 'the necessity of mystery', where grief and joy, death and rebirth, stagnation and transformation exist alongside one another.
A piercingly original debut about the limits of forgiveness, from an award- winning Scottish poet
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.