Countless writers have been inspired by the beauty of birds – their colours, their easy flight, their lightness and softness, and the grace and whimsicality of their ways.  Literature, especially our poetry, is full of them.

Spanning the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, "Poems About Birds" captures the enticing lives of birds through the eyes of poets. From John Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ to Sylvia Lynd’s ‘The Return of the Goldfinches’, from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘The Eagle’ to William Wordsworth’s ‘To The Skylark’, countless varieties of bird are celebrated here.

This annotated edition of Poems About Birds selects the very best from H. J. Massingham’s original collection which was first published in 1922.

Hardcover, 224 pages