Emblem Nadia Alkowkabani defiantly asserting that we are

defiantly asserting that we are not defeated – at least not just yet

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

It has to/be done

fulminating at the news’ excesses or recalling vanished boyhood heroes - finds much virtue in small things

Emblem Nadia Alkowkabani defiantly asserting that we areEmblem 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