FLIGHTS OF IMAGINATION by Mike Mockler
Few people can remain completely unmoved by the sights and sounds of wild birds, with their grace and delicacy of movement, the rich variety of their songs and calls, the subtleties of their colourful plumage and, of course, the marvel of flight. F rom the enjoyment of birds themselves it is but a short step to enjoyment of the poetry which captures their beauty and charm in words.
In this anthology sixty poems from amongst our finest modern poets havenbeen collected to celebrate the beauty and variety of bird life around us.
Talented painters of our times were invited to illustrate the poems, to enhance the sentiments expressed, and a glance through the pages will instantly reveal the variety of styles included.
The aim of the painters has been not to define the poems, but rather to capture their moods - and many moods are offered here: comic ducks, self-important starlings and busy-body pigeons; ethereal herons, portentous owls and the melancholy greenshank; the ambivalent fascination of the birds of prey; the delightful little woodland birds.
All the poets and painters who contribute to this anthology have been chosen for the way in which their sensitivity to the birds communicates itself without effort: the reader does not need to be an ornithologist, nor need he be practised in thebart of poetry reading. It is a book offered to widen the bird lover's acquaintance with the birds around him and to deepen his appreciation of the natural world.
1982 Hardcover
ISBN: 0 7137 1164 7
Condition: Extremely Fine
FB (Birds)
Few people can remain completely unmoved by the sights and sounds of wild birds, with their grace and delicacy of movement, the rich variety of their songs and calls, the subtleties of their colourful plumage and, of course, the marvel of flight. F rom the enjoyment of birds themselves it is but a short step to enjoyment of the poetry which captures their beauty and charm in words.
In this anthology sixty poems from amongst our finest modern poets havenbeen collected to celebrate the beauty and variety of bird life around us.
Talented painters of our times were invited to illustrate the poems, to enhance the sentiments expressed, and a glance through the pages will instantly reveal the variety of styles included.
The aim of the painters has been not to define the poems, but rather to capture their moods - and many moods are offered here: comic ducks, self-important starlings and busy-body pigeons; ethereal herons, portentous owls and the melancholy greenshank; the ambivalent fascination of the birds of prey; the delightful little woodland birds.
All the poets and painters who contribute to this anthology have been chosen for the way in which their sensitivity to the birds communicates itself without effort: the reader does not need to be an ornithologist, nor need he be practised in thebart of poetry reading. It is a book offered to widen the bird lover's acquaintance with the birds around him and to deepen his appreciation of the natural world.
1982 Hardcover
ISBN: 0 7137 1164 7
Condition: Extremely Fine
FB (Birds)
Few people can remain completely unmoved by the sights and sounds of wild birds, with their grace and delicacy of movement, the rich variety of their songs and calls, the subtleties of their colourful plumage and, of course, the marvel of flight. F rom the enjoyment of birds themselves it is but a short step to enjoyment of the poetry which captures their beauty and charm in words.
In this anthology sixty poems from amongst our finest modern poets havenbeen collected to celebrate the beauty and variety of bird life around us.
Talented painters of our times were invited to illustrate the poems, to enhance the sentiments expressed, and a glance through the pages will instantly reveal the variety of styles included.
The aim of the painters has been not to define the poems, but rather to capture their moods - and many moods are offered here: comic ducks, self-important starlings and busy-body pigeons; ethereal herons, portentous owls and the melancholy greenshank; the ambivalent fascination of the birds of prey; the delightful little woodland birds.
All the poets and painters who contribute to this anthology have been chosen for the way in which their sensitivity to the birds communicates itself without effort: the reader does not need to be an ornithologist, nor need he be practised in thebart of poetry reading. It is a book offered to widen the bird lover's acquaintance with the birds around him and to deepen his appreciation of the natural world.
1982 Hardcover
ISBN: 0 7137 1164 7
Condition: Extremely Fine
FB (Birds)