In Eynsham

by Steve Lambert

The voices in this collection take wing, flying through their sharp narratives with poise and elegance.

36 pages, Paperback

Published August 25, 2020

About the author

Steve Lambert's writing has appeared in Louisiana Literature, Chiron Review, Saw Palm, The Pinch, Broad River Review, Tampa Review, Longleaf Review, Cortland Review, and many other places. In 2018 he won Emrys Journal’s Nancy Dew Taylor Poetry Prize. He is the recipient of four Pushcart Prize nominations and was a Rash Award in Fiction finalist. He is the author of the poetry collections Heat Seekers (2017) and The Shamble (2021), the chapbook In Eynsham (2020), and the fiction collection The Patron Saint of Birds (2020). His novel, Philisteens, came out in May, 2021. The collaborative fiction text, Mortality Birds, written with Timothy Dodd, was published by Southernmost Books in 2022. In 2024 Southernmost Books reissued his fiction collection, Patron Saint of Birds. He is from Florida.

Reviews

[elderfoil...the whatever champion · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is brilliant. Oh, from one of America's own! More of that Lambertian (pronounced with a "sh") downbeat, slinky, dry-witted, connected disconnectedness that I've come to love. But now we're out of his humid Florida and into the tweed creepery of a little kick in Inglaterra. Lots of bird calls there that you might not hear, and I'm dialed into it, consider myself fortunate ... or, as SL himself might say...for the moment, at least.

Favorite poems: In Whitstable, In Eynsham, In Stratford, and After Reading John Clare.