{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-birds","title":"Ten Poems about Birds","description":"Our smallest creatures seem to demand the most rapt attention. The poems in this revised edition of our much-loved title suggest that there’s something in the nature of a bird that makes it particularly suited to the small and intense space that is a poem.\n\nThe ten selections are little miracles in themselves, capturing the quirks of habit or appearance that distinguish one species from another. For Jean Atkin a chough is an embodiment of King Arthur, while for Katrina Porteous a skylark offers:\n\n“…all the music the heart needs,\nFull of its sudden fall, silent fields.”\n\nfrom ‘Skylark’ by Katrina Porteous\n\nThe poems beautifully imagine the brief and joyful lives of birds, while teasing out what thrills and moves us when we encounter them. A poem, it transpires, can reveal just as much as a pair of binoculars.\n\nSelected and introduced by Katharine Towers.\n\nPoems by Jean Atkin, Alison Brackenbury, John Clare, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Rebecca Goss, Thomas Hardy, Caleb Parkin, Katrina Porteous and Ly","brand":"Candlestick Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58013733912963,"sku":null,"price":7.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0797\/1438\/6230\/files\/779a1dc5021b9bcc1cb78ed1cefad211a1c5e6751e70f4b76f9c788328cf75fd.jpg?v=1778368849","url":"https:\/\/floreannspantry.myshopify.com\/products\/ten-poems-about-birds","provider":"Flore@Annspantry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}