PilgrimIn her debut pamphlet, Lisabelle Tay leads the reader down through the underworlds of illness, motherhood and family histories. Lighting the way with her luminescent 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

Ross Cogan

” This second edition

feminist and funny

reveals [an] amazing eye for detail

This remarkable book adds up

Editor Tony Curtis (poet and a respected art critic) has brought together experts whose subtle and accessible essays extend further our appreciation of what continues to be a mainstay of our literary and artistic canon

be they set in the world of 1960s Soho

and Misa and Okada find themselves locked in a penthouse room with ten other guests

he writes of personal loss

parallel lives

and embracing subjects as diverse as war

so assembling a very mixed company