Pattern-book by Éireann Lorsung Maria Bloshteyn ’ – George Szirtes on

’ – George Szirtes on Anne Stevenson

travel and transience

lovers and friends

Written with exhilarating freedom and creativity

camouflage

Pattern-book by Éireann Lorsung Maria Bloshteyn ’ – George Szirtes onPATTERN BOOK is a collection of poems about family, grief, time, art, visual art, but also poetry and about language itself. It's threaded through with filaments of poems by Emily Dickinson, and makes reference to John Berryman, whose suicide haunted my education on the campus where he died, and to Edna St Vincent Millay, whose modernist sonnets were some of my earliest favourite poems and are models for my own. Across the book, I'm thinking about how