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11%OFFGwyneth Lewis - Sparrow Tree - 9781852248994 - V9781852248994
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Sparrow Tree

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Description for Sparrow Tree Paperback. New collection of poems in English by Wales's first National Poet. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 138 x 5. Weight in Grams: 112. 64 pages. New collection of poems in English by Wales's first National Poet. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 218 x 138 x 5. Weight: 110.
Gwyneth Lewis's highly inventive Sparrow Tree puts nature writing in a spin, presenting a huge variety of birds, both British and American: blue tits, blackbirds, egrets, juncos, starlings, herons and hummingbirds as well as the sparrows of the title. The book explores birds as mouthpieces for inhuman song and the wild inside the mind. Launching flights of avian fancy or fantasy on several levels, Sparrow Tree moves from birdsong as proto-language to birds as decorative beings. The collection includes her already well-known How to Knit a Poem, commissioned by BBC Radio 4, and ends with images of the human word ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd Northumberland
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852248994
SKU
V9781852248994
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-30

About Gwyneth Lewis
Gwyneth Lewis was Wales’s National Poet from 2005 to 2006, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship. Her first six books of poetry in Welsh and English were followed by Chaotic Angels (2005) from Bloodaxe, which brings together the poems from her English collections, Parables & Faxes, Zero Gravity and Keeping Mum, and by A Hospital Odyssey (2010), ... Read more

Reviews for Sparrow Tree
These are poems that gather darkly and peck. They feint and play hazardously with their beaks and sometimes take to wing… These are poems more concerned with the mechanisms of song – both human and avian – than they are with the song itself, and it is this resistance that makes the poems so often mesmerising…What Lewis pulls off…feels like ... Read more

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