Pattern-book by Éireann Lorsung Anne Bradstreet that ‘It befits heroes to

that ‘It befits heroes to be frozen’

madness and retribution

It’s a book of rooms

Events and lives are described in sensuous detail

this is a book to share and treasure forever

Pattern-book by Éireann Lorsung Anne Bradstreet that ‘It befits heroes toPATTERN 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