The Poetry of Birds

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Birds are the most obvious wild things we have around us. They are much watched & much loved, not least by poets. Bird poetry is as old as British poetry itself, & a remarkable number of poets have written poems about birds. In this anthology Simon Armitage & Tim Dee gather together the best of the past & the present.

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A STUNNING COLLECTION OF POEMS CURATED BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOUR FIELDS
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‘Some of the most ethereal verse ever written’ Sunday Telegraph

‘A glorious collection of works old and new’ Independent on Sunday

‘Truly inexhaustible . . . to be read again and again’ Daily Mail

‘A rich and sustaining larder, a marvellously realized sourcebook of flights of feathered fancy’ Guardian

‘A life-affirming celebration of the commonplace yet enduringly mysterious creatures we share this world with and the poetry they have inspired’ Daily Telegraph

Additional information

Weight 281 g
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.2 cm
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Publisher

Penguin Books

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

384

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.00803628 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K