Bird Woman by Em Strang now available, with my work The Bird is My Brother on the cover….

“Bird-Woman is now available, folks! Here is a link to the Shearsman site. Also available at Wordery or The Book Depository.  Many thanks again to Kate Walters for the wonderful cover image. I’ll be launching at The Bakehouse in Gatehouse of Fleet, The Radical Book Fair in Edinburgh and hopefully The Project Cafe in Glasgow…Also, somewhere in Dumfries soonish! Will post dates in due course. :-)” Em Strang

Published 2016. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5×5.5ins, £8.95 / $16 [Download a PDF sampler from this book here.] “Em Strang’s poetry reminds us that right dwelling is not just a theoretical or ideological concern; it must also be rooted in the gravity that structures everything, rich in the old pagan know…
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“Em Strang’s poetry reminds us that right dwelling is not just a theoretical or ideological 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