Description
A STUNNING COLLECTION OF POEMS CURATED BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOUR FIELDS
___________________________
‘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
Selected Poetry 
Six Vowels and Twenty Three Consonants: An Anthology of Persian Poetry from Ruda 
Gold from the Stone 
Ten Pre-Raphaelite Poems 
Negative Space 
101 Poems About Childhood 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
Looking at the Sun A Telephone Book 
Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy