Lillie is a French-English bilingual poet currently completing her degree in English Literature and Spanish at The University of Sheffield. The poems here are selected from the sequence Le Dépaysement, exploring movement between languages and places and a longing for a homeland. These themes are important to Lillie’s work and are something she loves to explore as she grew up between two countries and languages. She also experiments with form in an attempt to capture the disorientation of displacement and the unreliability of memory. 

What we liked: Lillie’s multilingual text, experimentation with form and stunning imagery combine to make powerful and moving poetry.

Lillie’s Instagram: @alalillie