A Whistling of Birds by Isobel Dixon Jackie Morris From Crusoe to Psycho

From Crusoe to Psycho

Michael Longley

investigating everything from dinosaurs to life on other planets

Matthew Hedley Stoppard’s second collection attempts to create an uncanny space where traditional customs and modern anxieties mix

Phil Cooper

A Whistling of Birds by Isobel Dixon Jackie Morris From Crusoe to PsychoElizabeth Bishops hawkweed, John Berrymans hummingbirds, Ted Hughess burnt fox the birds, beasts and flowers of Isobel Dixons new collection are at times kin to D. H. Lawrence, whose essay Whistling of Birds lends this book its name, though each poem here is its own vivid testament to the natural world, and our often troubled and troubling place in it. Lyrical, vigorous, inventive, A Whistling of Birds is at times in conversation with Lawrences iconic