Description
Emblem 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 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.
Selected Poems of the Seven Masters of the Jian'an era 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
What Rhymes with Sneeze? 
The Moon Before Morning 
Poems 
The Bone Flowers 
The Edge of Necessary 
Us 
Milk and Honey 
The Last Poems of Jules Laforgue 
Between Mountain and Sea: Poems from Assynt 
River Lane 
Floss