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Notes
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Dedication: This book is for Jean, but to be shared with Linacre College, Oxford, where most of the poems were completed.
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Epigraph: Ornithology can't be pursued at all in a cultural cringe:
binoculars are for skies, rich foliage, bright lenses.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Newcastle,
Newcastle - Hunter Valley area,
New South Wales,:Nimrod Publications
, 1989 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- The Birds of Britain Series : 1 : Geese on Port Meadow : New Year 1988i"Port Meadow: new year", single work poetry (p. 5)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 2 : Birdsong at the Double Locks : Exeteri"That must be the pub down there", single work poetry (p. 6-7)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 3 : `Tooth and Claw, Gules' : Some English Poetsi"An owl's head is two flowers", single work poetry (p. 8)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 4 : Robins in North Oxfordi"Each morning three cock robins", single work poetry (p. 9)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 5 : Magpie Farming in Wales : an Unscheduled Stopi"Seventeen sheep (two rise),", single work poetry (p. 10)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 6 : Ducks: after Hungerford : Oxford, August 1987i"Mallard scatter across the towpath:", single work poetry (p. 11)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 7 : Chicken and Chips, Bangori"Yeah, well, er, thanks, mate. What's this? Strike,", single work poetry (p. 12)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 8 : Starling Songi"March. the starlings are singing.", single work poetry (p. 13)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 9 : the Penn Club Wakai"I keep waking up", single work poetry (p. 14)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 10 : Mansfield Road and Holywell : the Blackbirdi"In the long May puddle", single work poetry (p. 15)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 11 : Owli"The evening tastes of rain. Just enough.", single work poetry (p. 16)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 12 : Omens: after a Dead Owli"Free as a bird I am now:", single work poetry (p. 17)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 13 : Poacher's Spelli"Hush, little moon,", single work poetry (p. 18)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 14 : the Bodleian Elegy (i.m. J. Brian Tomson 1942-1986)i"In Duke Humfrey's a shadow bends & nods", single work poetry (p. 19)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 15 : Pigeon Shooti"Red blots the white pigeons", single work poetry (p. 20-21)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 16 : Oxford Pigeons: Margaret's Storyi"1. Totally weaponless, fearless -", single work poetry (p. 22-23)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 17 : Thrush Sonnet at Pentecosti"Young ashes & sycamore, scatter of ashes of lime,", single work poetry (p. 24)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 18 : New College Cricket Field : Oxford, May 1988i"Three ducks cross the pitch,", single work poetry (p. 25)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 19 : Mill Hill Road Memory 1976-1988i"Nightingale singing", single work poetry (p. 26)
- The Birds of Britain Series : 20 : a Particular Dewi"The warblers churr, churr-", single work poetry (p. 27)
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