Pattern-book by Éireann Lorsung Anne Bradstreet Events and lives are described

Events and lives are described in sensuous detail

Borders are crossed

fallen head over heels in love with Jeremy Corbyn and his raw Communist sex appeal

Broke and bitter

Pattern-book by Éireann Lorsung Anne Bradstreet Events and lives are describedPATTERN BOOK is a collection of poems about family, grief, time, art, visual art, but also poetry and about language itself. It's threaded through with filaments of poems by Emily Dickinson, and makes reference to John Berryman, whose suicide haunted my education on the campus where he died, and to Edna St Vincent Millay, whose modernist sonnets were some of my earliest favourite poems and are models for my own. Across the book, I'm thinking about how