Listen to Michael Collier reading this poem. Bird song in the morning air but also the whirr of my neighbor’s lift as it raises him in his wheelchair onto the bed of his truck. Not someone to ...

One way that poets write about beginnings is simply by choosing the morning hour ... waking me again to see that bird, flying so strangely over the city This poem recalls the moment of waking ...

The Poetry of Birds, a collection of avian verse edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee, takes flight, finds Adam O'Riordan Ever since the Anglo Saxon elegist behind The Seafarer sought comfort from ...