Pilot Songs for a Phantom Island by Paul O'Prey women'spoetry Only such writing can be

Only such writing can be called “humble”

get up to hear the dawn chorus

But at the heart of the book is a remarkable series of poems about anti-Semitism

exhilarating in its soundscapes

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

Pilot Songs for a Phantom Island by Paul O'Prey women'spoetry Only such writing can beIt'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