Powerful. A rich and sustaining larder, a marvellously realized sourcebook of flights of feathered fancy * Guardian * Some of the most ethereal verse ever written * Sunday Telegraph * A glorious collection of works old and new * Independent on Sunday * Compendious . . . offers many pleasures * Daily Express * The poems gathered here celebrate our tenuous connection to something timeless and sublime. A truly inexhaustible collection . . . to be read again and again * Daily Mail * Had me entranced * Observer * A wonderful, generous anthology. A life-affirming celebration of the commonplace yet enduringly mysterious creatures we share this world with and the poetry they have inspired * Daily Telegraph *
