Poems for Eva
About this book
Since his first published collection of short stories nearly two decades ago, Michel Faber has written with unrivaled honesty and tireless imagination. Though he has had a number of editors over the years, the primary editor of all his work, until now, has been Michel's wife, Eva. It was she who encouraged him to continually commit his talents to writing fiction, and gave him feedback and insight on his daily progress. Anyone who has Michel's fiction owes her a lot. It is now a year since Eva died. This volume of poems is a small memorial to her life and a companion piece to the final novel that she lived to see Michel complete, The Book of Strange New Things. It is a novel that asks whether and how love can survive distance. These poems are a kind of answer.500 copies of this limited edition have been published.