Delighted to welcome Em Strang into the bunker, sorry back room, this morning. Like Marion McCready who appeared earlier in the pestilence, Em's poetry inhabits the beautiful intersect between the human and the mystical. It's spirituality without the dogma. This is the poetry for these times, I suspect, asking questions about our whole selves and our imprints on the earth, history and each other and not pretending to have easy answers.
Em Strang has a PhD in Creative Writing from Glasgow. Her first collection Bird-Woman was published by Shearsman in 2016, and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Best First Collection, winning the 2017 Saltire Poetry Book of the Year. Her second collection Horse-Man was published by Shearsman in November 2019.
Em's Website here:
https://em-strang.co.uk/
Links to Em's books here:
https://www.shearsman.com/store/search?keywords=em%20strang
And more information here:
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/em-strang/
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