Lyra and the Thrush: A ballet in poems

In her debut collection Heaven Fay has created the ballet of Lyra and the Thrush. Through the quaint story of a bird and the girl who saves her--a story of an impossible love--she has composed imaginative intricately woven movements that reveal the quiet lives of ordinary things. Lyrical and narrative this Sapphic poetry sets the simplicities of the earth--a bow and arrow a clothesline a gooseberry pie--to music gives them a voice (at times haunting in what it speaks) and releases them pirouetting onto the page. Like an old story found again the poems in this collection are familiar nostalgic; comforting remembrances. Heaven Fay is sure to charm readers with this original and gorgeously wistful ballet in poems.