Firebird by Em Strang Ahren Warner Shrugging off her own anxiety

Shrugging off her own anxiety and disillusionment with characteristic humour and pitch-perfect cadence

a wild swimmer grapples with sharks and all the while these questing

by “things that we don’t think to see

Anthology Contributors: Afric McGlinchey

” not just desire

Firebird by Em Strang Ahren Warner Shrugging off her own anxietyPublished July2024. Available for pre order. Firebird explores the fires of destruction and rebirth, both literal and spiritual. Each poem invites the reader to consider the necessity of mystery, where grief and joy, death and rebirth, stagnation and transformation exist alongside one another, exactly as they are. In two sections of ekphrastic poems, Em Strang engages with visual art by American painter and erstwhile nun, Meinrad Craighead, and