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Thursday 13th November 2025
Ten Poems about Birds
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.
The ten selections are little miracles in themselves, capturing the quirks of habit or appearance that distinguish one species from another. The 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.