Pattern-book by Éireann Lorsung #Iceland Each poem is a journey

Each poem is a journey of the soul that interrogates what it is to love and to be alive

' – Pankaj Mishra on The Promised Land

sex and family histories with an impressive deftness

Raging with vivid

that Collected War Music is one of the great poems of our time

Pattern-book by Éireann Lorsung #Iceland Each poem is a journeyPATTERN BOOK is a collection of poems about family, grief, time, art, visual art, but also poetry and about language itself. It's threaded through with filaments of poems by Emily Dickinson, and makes reference to John Berryman, whose suicide haunted my education on the campus where he died, and to Edna St Vincent Millay, whose modernist sonnets were some of my earliest favourite poems and are models for my own. Across the book, I'm thinking about how