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.
The Black Place 
Busy Reindeer 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid 
The Skies Above My Eyes 
The Lover's Pinch 
My First Mr. Men Nursery Rhymes 
Steep Tea 
The Tamarit Poems