Something in the nature of a bird makes it particularly suited to the small, intense space of a poem. The poems in this delightful anthology capture quirks of habit and appearance, imagine what the vivid life of a bird might be like, and tease out what precisely thrills or moves us when our attention is arrested by a bird. Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, John Clare, Emily Dickinson, Paul Farley, Rebecca Goss, Kathleen Jamie, Michael Longley, George MacBeth, Katrina Porteous and Lynne Wycherley.