The Lost World by Celia Drill is a poignant and lyrical exploration of our contemporary existence. Through a series of imagistic poems, Drill invites readers on a journey that blurs the line between the tangible and the transcendent. Drill paints a vivid portrait of modern life, capturing its complexities and mysteries. Each poem guides us through both the physical world and deeper, spiritual realms.

Readers who enjoy Mary Oliver, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sylvia Plath, and Pablo Neruda won’t want to miss this poetry. The combination of lyrical prose, nature, and philosophical poetry makes this a book to read time and again.

Experience tranquility, reflection, and the beauty of the soul with this vibrant poetry collection. … In ethereal free verse, Drill carries the reader from poem to poem with the soft guidance of someone ushering you into the dreamworld…. If you like vibrant imagery, the chance for reflection, and poetry that bends the rules, you will find a new favorite with The Lost World.

Drill explores earthly, celestial, and emotional landscapes in this mystical book of poems…. This lyrical poetry collection is rich with evocative imagery and emotional depth. Drill’s descriptions are imaginative and unique, from Birds of Paradise as ‘mouths of wisdom’ to a hummingbird as a ‘lone angel circling.’ Drill turns the tiniest detail—like the ‘blue of unveiled secrets’ of robins’ eggs—into a beautiful and mysterious meditation.

The power of poetry is its capacity to pry open the heart. Or the soul. That’s when a poem, for some of us, becomes a prayer. Or an answered prayer. The Lost World is a collection best taken one page at a time. Each poem holds enough insight to linger for days.

Beloved, accompany me’ Celia Drill beckons in The Lost World through prose poems that enliven dust motes, past spiderwebs with faces cast down, to an Easter beyond. We ‘enter…knowing nothing, of why I came’ but find ourselves ‘floating out of time’ with ‘a rush of poetry bleeding’. Drill finds us lost in a garden, ‘guiding me not just home, but everywhere at once’ in a ,*world where ‘Earth, today, is generous’. A true delight to eat of the perceptive insight in this poetry collection.

Haunted by the feelings you can’t explain in words that reveal the pain yet transcend. That is how The Lost World captured me and took me on my own journey through the dark forest to smell the Paper Flowers. The powerful imagery and juxtaposition of nature and environment that Celia conjures up made my hair stand on end and pay attention to the world that she created, powerful, confident, masterful. Celia writes with such honesty and authenticity her book filled me with such gratitude.