Sparrow Tree

Name: Sparrow Tree
Brand: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Gwyneth Lewis

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. Winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year). See more

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Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
Publication Date: 26 May 2011
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781852248994

About Gwyneth Lewis

Gwyneth Lewis was Waless 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) and Sparrow Tree (2011) winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year) in 2012. Her other books include Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book about Depression (Flamingo 2002) and Two in a Boat: A Marital Voyage (Fourth Estate 2005) and The Meat Tree: new stories from the Mabinogion (Seren 2010). Her Welsh collection Y Llofrudd Iaith (Barddas 2000) won the Welsh Arts Council Book of the Year Prize and her 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 Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff opened in 2004. In 2014 she dramatised her book-length poem A Hospital Odyssey for the BBC broadcast on Radio 4's Afternoon Drama and delivered her Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures published in Quantum Poetics (Bloodaxe Books 2015). She lives in Cardiff.