The Language of Bees by Rae Howells Tapsalteerie bringing to life the silent

bringing to life the silent histories and harsh realities of a vanishing working-class way of life in what was once Britain’s industrial heartland

In addition to all the poems that Russian editors have suggested constitute the sequence Mandelstam would have wished to see into print

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Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400

The Language of Bees by Rae Howells Tapsalteerie bringing to life the silentThese poems are rich in language, in poetic resources, in knowledge of nature everything from the sexlessness of hydrangeas to how a bee breathes. Above all they are rich in love, for the world that we are inseparable from and on the verge of destroying. Matthew Francis, Wing (Faber, 2020) The language of bees is a collection bursting with the beauty and life of the natural world. In these ambitious and accomplished poems, Rae Howells forges a unique