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Brambleby Books

Inspiration Through Nature

Bird Words

Hugh David Loxdale

Poetic images of wild birds

This selection of poetry conveys the author’s passion for these extraordinary creatures, co-inhabitants of our world, whose appearance, voice and behaviour, especially flight, continue to inspire. This book will appeal to all who delight in seeing wild birds in a natural setting, whether in the garden or park or as an integral part of the landscape. The poems concern birds from a wide variety of places around the world – the woods of England and the mountains of Arizona to the forests of a Caribbean island and the wild southern oceans, home of the Wandering Albatross.

Publication date: 1 January, 2003

Category: Birds and Birdwatching, Poetry

Paperback

RRP: £5.99

ISBN: 978 0954334 734

Extent: 80 pages

Reviews

About Swifts: “…a really superb poem.”

Dr. Charles A. Foster,  Green Templeton College, University of Oxford

It is delightful!

A. Bingham, Brockenhurst, Hants., UK

The poems are a delight to read; a good change from some modern poetry which has hard inanimate topics.

J. Hutchinson, Woodbridge, Suffolk

This delightful book highlights the importance of birds to the British psyche.

Dr. Nick Carter,  scientist and former Development Director, British Trust for Ornithology

A paperback of poems by a poet and professional biologist, reminding us that wild birds continue to inspire and delight in a host of different ways.

Rob Hume, former editor of RSPB 'Birds' Magazine


Hugh David Loxdale

Professor Hugh David Loxdale, MBE, was born in Horley, Surrey, England, but grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, where, outside school, he spent much of his spare time roaming the countryside and observing wildlife. Besides an interest in science, especially biology, he was also interested in history and English literature. …

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