Where the Black Swans Swim by Emily Barker Nichola Deane The poems in Ephemeron deal

The poems in Ephemeron deal with the short-lived and transitory - whether it's the brief

they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise

and its title from her poem of the same name

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Where the Black Swans Swim by Emily Barker Nichola Deane The poems in Ephemeron dealEmily Barker's debut poetry pamphlet Where the Black Swans Swim is a thing of wild and restless joy. It is full of wonder, curiosity, music and the ache of memory and displacement. These are poems of love for the natural world, of the fragility and beauty of the creatures that populate it and the human creatures who are so often its despoilers, and which seek