The Poetry of Birds
  • Published: 13 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141027111
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $29.99
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The Poetry of Birds

edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee

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6 Nov 2009
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13 Apr 2011
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The best poems ever written about birds - a definitive new anthology

Birds are the most obvious wild things we have around us. They are much watched and much loved. A remarkable number of poets have noticed birds and British bird poetry is as old as British poetry. Some of the best known, and most loved, poems in English are bird poems. Here poet Simon Armitage and amateur ornithologist Tim Dee gather the best of the past and the most promising of the present, as well as some overlooked gems. Poems are organised according to ornithological classification, and there are detailed ornithological notes which illuminate the poems and provide fascinating information on the birds. Altogether this is a truly original anthology.
  • Published: 13 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141027111
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $29.99
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Praise for The Poetry of Birds

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