Fire in Paradise

A collection of poems written by father and daughter during the Pandemic Year 2020

It’s publication day for a new collection from Read650’s senior editor Steven Lewis and his daughter, Elizabeth Bayou-Grace, who also wrote the introduction. Here’s an excerpt:

“My father and I started talking about making a split collection of poetry together shortly before the pandemic began. And then he was hospitalized with Covid-19, and we all watched the world change. Together. Separately. It was then that I began to understand how important it was to share our voices in the same collection, to be read together. To not only write with him in the room, but to explicitly invite him in. To make something beautiful out of our conversation. To suffer together. To learn together. To dream of a better world.”

—Elizabeth Bayou-Grace

Fire in Paradise won’t be available on Amazon.com until fall, but you can order it directly from the publisher, Codhill Press, or from your local independent bookseller.