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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

Publisher Review

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 *