Never Too Late
Em Strang
10th January, 2024
In our second selection for this month's archive series, Sharon English introduces two poems by Em Strang from Dark Mountain: Issue 16 –REFUGE. With artwork by Kate Walters originally featured in Issue 13.
Em Strang
Em was Dark Mountain's poetry editor from 2014-2016 and spearheaded Issue 10 - Uncivilised Poetics. Bird-Woman (Shearsman, 2016) was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Best First Collection Prize and won the 2017 Saltire Poetry Book of the Year Award. Her second collection, Horse-Man (Shearsman, 2019), was shortlisted for the Ledbury Munthe prize for Best Second Collection. Her first novel, Quinn, was shortlisted for the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize and was published by Oneworld in 2023.
My Posts
Deep Waters: Burnt Umber
Em Strang
21st September, 2010
‘The Worker’ is painted in oil: the ingrain yarn of his hands, every fine line...