Full Description
In her debut pamphlet, Lisabelle Tay leads the reader down through the underworlds of illness, motherhood and family histories. Lighting the way with her poems, the poet draws on Celtic, Classical and Chinese mythologies, appealing to the selkie, Eurydice, and Chang'e in turn as she seeks a path through the darkness - and back to the light.
Pilgrim depicts a journey and a return, moving from the expansive and mythological to the inward and personal. The pilgrim who left is not the pilgrim who returns.
Contents
What it means to wane
Pilgrim
List of Things Beyond My Bedroom Curtains
After
Selkie
The Lioness
Lunar gossip
Letter to Orpheus
Sir Gawain in the forest
Reaper's Pantun
Thus came the mollusk god
Beneath the eyelids of morning
Paladin
Water Children
Goldflower's Brother
Stigmata
Acropolis at Mid-Season
Letter to my son
