Pilot Songs for a Phantom Island by Paul O'Prey women'spoetry varied and vigorous and which

varied and vigorous and which slide seamlessly between the intimate and epic

but to live and flourish on their own terms

Poems of the Decade 2011-2020 celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Forward Prizes for Poetry

exhilarating in its soundscapes

and into her oh so corruptible body – and thus the story begins

Pilot Songs for a Phantom Island by Paul O'Prey women'spoetry varied and vigorous and whichIt's marked on all the maps and stories of its wonders abound but, for some mysterious reason, whenever we set off for the island we never seem to arrive. Starting with legendary voyages of failed or faked discovery, reality and illusion collide in poems that question how we see and know, and in which finding our island depends as much on navigating uncharted seas within, as on mastery of the stars. 'Pilot Songs explores the elusive, hallucinatory and