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Book SynopsisIn her debut pamphlet, Lisabelle Tay leads the reader down through the underworlds of illness, motherhood and family histories. Lighting the way with her poems, the poet draws on Celtic, Classical and Chinese mythologies, appealing to the selkie, Eurydice, and Chang'e in turn as she seeks a path through the darkness – and back to the light. Pilgrim depicts a journey and a return, moving from the expansive and mythological to the inward and personal. The pilgrim who left is not the pilgrim who returns.
Trade Review‘Reading Pilgrim was not like reading your average poetry pamphlet [...]. The (reading) adventure continues. I am disorientated. And what I enjoy in that sensation is the pleasure of experiencing something different.’ Charlotte Gann, Sphinx Review.
Table of ContentsWhat it means to wane Pilgrim List of Things Beyond My Bedroom Curtains After Selkie The Lioness Lunar gossip Letter to Orpheus Sir Gawain in the forest Reaper’s Pantun Thus came the mollusk god Beneath the eyelids of morning Paladin Water Children Goldflower’s Brother Stigmata Acropolis at Mid-Season Letter to my son
