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The Poetry of Birds

edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee

Simon Armitage author Tim Dee editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:24th Feb '11

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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

'Arich 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

Powerful. A rich and sustaining larder, a marvellously realized sourcebook of flights of feathered fancy * Guardian *
Some of the most ethereal verse ever written * Sunday Telegraph *
A glorious collection of works old and new * Independent on Sunday *
Compendious . . . offers many pleasures * Daily Express *
The poems gathered here celebrate our tenuous connection to something timeless and sublime. A truly inexhaustible collection . . . to be read again and again * Daily Mail *
Had me entranced * Observer *
A wonderful, generous anthology. A life-affirming celebration of the commonplace yet enduringly mysterious creatures we share this world with and the poetry they have inspired * Daily Telegraph *

ISBN: 9780141027111

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 21mm

Weight: 279g

384 pages