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Synopsis
Departing on flights of avian fancy or fantasy on several levels, Sparrow Tree moves from considering birdsong as proto-language to examining birds as decorative beings. ""Speaking on her love of birds and spinning it into something unique, Sparrow Tree speaks profoundly.""-The Midwest Book Review Sept. 2011
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About the Author
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), with The Sparrow Tree due in 2011. She also has published two non-fiction titles, Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book about Depression (Flamingo, 2002) and Two in a Boat: A Marital Voyage (Fourth Estate, 2005). Her last Welsh collection, Y Llofrudd Iaith (Barddas, 2000), won the Welsh Arts Council Book of the Year Prize, and her last English collection, Keeping Mum was shortlisted for the same prize. Both Zero Gravity and Keeping Mum were Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Gwyneth Lewis composed the words on the front of the new Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, opened in 2004. She lives in Cardiff.
Review
'One of the most exhilaratingly gifted poets of her generation' - M. Wynn Thomas, Guardian. 'Such exuberant invention - The range of reference is so wide, we are intoxicated by it' - Elaine Feinstein, --Independent
Speaking on her love of birds and spinning it into something unique, Sparrow Tree speaks profoundly. --The Midwest Book Review
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- PublisherBloodaxe Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1852248998
- ISBN 13 9781852248994
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages64
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 as a form of love. 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. Winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781852248994
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