Firebird by Em Strang Ahren Warner by “things that we don’t

by “things that we don’t think to see

Gigi Marks

I looked out at the rushing homes and fields and cried

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

this collection is a hugely original approach to a number of pressing issues

Firebird by Em Strang Ahren Warner by “things that we don’tPublished 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