Pattern-book by Éireann Lorsung #Iceland Pat Edwards

Pat Edwards

and even the metaphysical

her modernist appropriation of poetic texts from around the world and her constant consideration of the way that culture

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

How do you get going as a performance poet and develop your stage presence

Pattern-book by Éireann Lorsung #Iceland Pat EdwardsPATTERN 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