Emblem Nadia Alkowkabani and is prepared to try

and is prepared to try a different

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In my hand

Peter Mackridge on Ritsos

Much of the book displays an ambivalence towards the land and its rituals

Emblem Nadia Alkowkabani and is prepared to tryEmblem is the debut collection from Lucy Mercer, winner of the inaugural White Review Poet's Prize. This is a book of ecological poetics, interested in exploring the changing symbols of the natural world in literature. Emblem revitalises this forgotten hybrid form in the present as a frame to contemplate the obscurities of motherhood, faith and the interior. In ghostly conversation with the sixteenth century emblematist Andrea Alciato a witness to a