Emily Bilman

Dr. Emily Bilman is a widely published and anthologized author of poetry, literary essays, and non-fiction. Her PhD dissertation, The Psychodynamics of Poetry: Poetic Virtuality and Oedipal Sublimation in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot and Paul Valéry was published by Lambert Academic, DE in 2010. Modern Ekphrasis (2013) was published by Peter Lang Academic, CH. Her poetry books, A Woman by A Well (2015), The Threshold of Broken Waters (2018), Apperception (2020), The Undertow (2023), and Resilience (2025) were published by Troubador Books, UK. Her sonnet, “Pathfinder”, landed on the moon with a time-capsule. She teaches literature, psychoanalysis, and creative writing in Geneva and New York.

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Author news

My poetry book "Apperception" highlights the intense dreaming process I experienced during the confinement due to our vulnerability caused by the pandemic. In the book, I tried to write about the reasons that brought about the Covid-19 crisis by referring to 18th century London life through the etchings and paintings of William Hogarth, the satirist painter.

"The Undertow" represents my childhood and adult life-experience and interaction with the ocean and. the sea. In the book, the sea is symbolised as an essential life-force allowing us to resist the unease of our civilization manifested by refugee-crises and migrations and to motivate us to cope with the climate crisis.

My poetry book, Resilience, refers to modern Faust, who in his quest for infinite knowledge, sank into despair through greed and untampered temptation but is purified through the power of resilience. The book draws upon a humanistic premise that extends from the mythological dimension to our contemporary values to emphasize that as we survive tragedy, we begin to grow spiritually. The reader thus attains an existential resilience based upon their own understanding and experiences a personal metamorphosis.