In the Orchard
Published on 12. April 2016
Book
Hardback
40 pages
978-1-910392-83-6 (ISBN)
Description
'In the Orchard' is not so much a collection of poems about birds as a book of memories and rare moments in which a number of familiar birds have played a spark-like role in bringing poems about. They are chiefly lyrical in character and range in time from 'Resurrection' written over fifty years ago to recent poems like 'The Bully Thrush', but they are not ordered chronologically and shouldn't be associated with events in the poet's private life. The etchings by Alan Turnbull are the result of his patient and painstaking study of each bird as it relates to the poem in which it appears.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-910392-83-6 (9781910392836)
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Anne Stevenson, an Anglo-American who has lived in Britain for many years, published eleven collections of poems with OUP before Bloodaxe Books brought out two further volumes incorporated into her collected Poems 1995-2005. Her Selected Poems were published by The Library of America, after she won The Poetry Foundation of America's Neglected Master's Award in 2007. In the same year she received the Lannan Prize for a Lifetime's Achievement in poetry. In recent years Bloodaxe has published Stone Milk (2007) and Astonishment (2012).