Emily Bilman

Emily Bilman graduated from Lausanne University in Switzerland and the Writing Programme of Vermont College, USA. She earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She lives in Geneva and writes and translates poetry in both English and French.

“Initiation to Flight,” “Perennity,” and “The Gauzed Interior”

Standing amid the death-censors
“You cannot succumb to Thanatos
all for all”, I said to them to ward off
their collective suicide. Unheard.