The Poetry of Birds

Dec 4, 2025 5:54 PM

Author:Simon Armitage,Tim Dee

The Poetry of Birds

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

Reviews

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

Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity

—— Guardian

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