Billy Mills was born Dublin 1954. He has lived and worked in Spain and the UK, and now lives in Limerick. Billy is the founder and co-editor (with Catherine Walsh) of hardPressed poetry and the Journal. His books include Lares/Manes: Collected Poems (Shearsman, 2009), Imaginary Gardens (hardPressed poetry 2012), Loop Walks (with David Bremner, hardPressed poetry 2013), from Pensato (Smithereens Press e-book, 2013). Since 2007, he has been a regular contributor to the Guardian Books site, including the popular Poster Poems series: http: //www.guardian.co.uk/profile/billymills He blogs at https: //ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com

This is Billy Mills' latest book, following on from his 2009 collected poems, Lares/Manes. It is a single long poem in one hundred sections, tracing some of his typical concerns of place and time.

Billy Mills (b. Dublin, 1954) is an Irish poet who lives with his family near Limerick. He spent three years teaching in Barcelona in the 1980s, followed by another teaching stint in Eastbourne, in the south of England, but settled again in Ireland in the early 1990s. He has edited the occasional magazine The Journal and the small press hardPressed Poetry, both of which he founded with his wife, poet Catherine Walsh, and has published several small-press collections. This major retrospective gives the reader a first chance to see all of his work gathered in on place, together with some new work.

In this Native American allegory, a young Lakota boy named David is despondent over the death of his sister and fears that he will never know happiness again. His father gives him a gift, a scroll with seven pictures, which properly understood, holds the keys to self understanding. In a deeply moving way, Lessons of a Lakota blends traditional Native American beliefs, with more modern principles such as positive thinking and self awareness. This book will teach you about yourself, show you what it means to be happy, and lead you on your own personal journey to inner peace.