A Whistling of Birds Yelena Gluzman performed in Leeds and Bridlington

performed in Leeds and Bridlington

to Derek Attridge

They take in his political awakening in colonial British Guiana

As events unfold

A Whistling of Birds Yelena Gluzman performed in Leeds and BridlingtonElizabeth 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