Em Strang, Firebird Book Launch
Schedule
Wed Jul 10 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
St Mary's Cathedral | Edinburgh, SC
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School, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh.
About this Event
Em Strang, Firebird Book Launch
Join us for the launch of Firebird, a new poetry collection by Em Strang, at the Song
School, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh, Wednesday July 10th, 7pm
Reading and Q&A.
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. In two sections of
ekphrastic poems, Em Strang engages with visual art by American painter and erstwhile
nun, Meinrad Craighead, and Italian Baroque painter, Caravaggio. The poems speak
specifically to Craighead’s 2004 Bosque Fire series – images made in the wake of a
devastating fire on the banks of the Rio Grande in New Mexico where she lived – and to a
number of Caravaggio’s religious paintings made between 1595 and 1609.
Em is a poet, novelist and Royal Literary Fund Fellow. Her writing preoccupations are with
nature, spirituality and the masculine. Em has published three collections of poetry with
Shearsman (Bird-Woman, 2016; Horse-Man, 2019; Firebird, 2024) and has been
shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Best First Collection Prize, the Ledbury Munthe prize for
Best Second Collection, and won the 2017 Saltire Poetry Book of the Year Award. Her first
novel, Quinn, was shortlisted for the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize and was
published by Oneworld in 2023.
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