Description
Moniza Alvi’s new book is unified by birds. Her creations ‘Motherbird’ and ‘Fatherbird’ are inspired by her parents, and by the loss of her father and by his emigration from Pakistan. Among the many bird-related poems are versions of the French poets Jules Supervielle and Saint-John Perse, and poems ‘after’ the paintings of the Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist Remedios Varo. Blackbird, Bye Bye is Moniza Alvi’s first new poetry book since her T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted collection At the Time of Partition, published in 2013.
Being Alive 
Up In The Attic 
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
Slipping the Leash 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
Dog Poems 
Gold from the Stone 
Spiritlands 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid 
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 
Strong in the Rain 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Hansel and Gretel 
Comic Poems 
Red Devon 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Soemps