EMBLEM by Lucy Mercer

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£12.00
Title Emblem
Author(s)/Editor(s) Lucy Mercer
Publisher Prototype
Pages 168
Dimensions 140 x 210 mm
Format Softcover
Year 2022

Emblem is the debut collection from Lucy Mercer, winner of the inaugural White Review Poet’s Prize. 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 lonely time – the poems are carried forward by a non-linear dream logic of metaphor and similitude, speaking pictures who remain silent and a focus on an adjacent imaginal world. As well as reusing images from Alciato’s emblem book, the poems fixate on alternating relations between text and image that blur into relations between mind and body, child and mother, red and green, past and present, public and private, the living and the dead.

  • Title

    Emblem

  • Author / Editor

    Lucy Mercer

  • Publisher

    Prototype Publishing

  • Pages

    168

  • Dimensions

    140 x 210mm

  • Format

    Softcover

  • Year

    2022

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