{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-birds-card-set","title":"Ten Poems about Birds - Card Set","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“…all the music the heart needs,\u003cbr\u003eFull of its sudden fall, silent fields.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom ‘Skylark’ by Katrina Porteous\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoems by Jean Atkin, Alison Brackenbury, John Clare, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Rebecca Goss, Thomas Hardy, Caleb Parkin, Katrina Porteous and Lynne Wycherley.\u003cbr\u003ePUBLISHER:\u003cbr\u003eCandlestick Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBIND:\u003cbr\u003eCards\u003cbr\u003ePAGES:\u003cbr\u003e24\u003cbr\u003eDIMENSIONS:\u003cbr\u003e137 x 210 mm","brand":"NATIONWIDE BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41798077644933,"sku":"PR427338","price":21.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/volts9781913627737_0_TSM6SIY4FLUS.jpg?v=1786165631","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/ten-poems-about-birds-card-set","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}