Joanna Lilley (Book order)

Joanna Lilley Book order

Joanna Lilley's poetry delves into the darker aspects of human experience, often exploring themes of loss, grief, and mortality. Her style is marked by its piercing introspection and its ability to draw readers into the inner lives of her characters. Lilley uses powerful, imagistic language to craft deeply affecting and memorable works. Her writing probes the complexities of human emotion with honesty and vulnerability.

Endlings

168 pages
6 hours of reading

Endlings takes us across continents and through the long expanse of aeons to give voice to the dead. In poems that are lyrical, exact, and deeply melancholic, Joanna Lilley demands audience for the final moments of animal extinction. From the zebra-horse quagga and chiding dodo, to the giant woolly mammoth and delicate Xerces Blue Butterfly, the haunting, urgent words of these "endlings" cut to the bone to expose the brutality of Nature and the devastating repercussions of human ignorance and intent, while giving hope that our humanity will help save what remains.