Orchid Heart Elegies

Here we stand between one breath / and death asking to be light.

What happens when someone we love dies? Orchid Heart Elegies explores the fragmentation of loss.

In luminous poems that echo the Duino Elegies, Zoë Landale – like an edgy, modern-day Rilke – takes the reader to a place of amazement. Enquiring into loneliness and the transformative power of a particular bioregion, Landale’s poems use language infused with the consolations of music to enact transformation. Following in the traditi...