A Whistling of Birds by Isobel Dixon Kevin M. F. Platt or characteristic landscapes

or characteristic landscapes

Happiness is a collection preoccupied with the ephemerality of happiness itself

sometimes heartbreaking

Inspired by the approach and style of the British Library's 2018 bestseller A Literary Christmas

' – Fatemeh Keshavarz

A Whistling of Birds by Isobel Dixon Kevin M. F. Platt or characteristic landscapesElizabeth 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