Emblem by Lucy Mercer
PBS Summer Choice 2022 John Sewell life-affirming way of telling the

life-affirming way of telling the near impossible-to-be-told

as well as Spain’s Francisco de Quevedo Prize for Ibero-American Poetry

It licks flame across the imagination

Esther Morgan

" qualities which are evident too in every page of her new book

Emblem by Lucy Mercer <b><br>PBS Summer Choice 2022</b> John Sewell life-affirming way of telling theEmblem is the debut collection from Lucy Mercer, winner of the inaugural White Review Poets Prize. 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