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Sky Burials

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The poems in Ben Smith's first chapbook map shifting environments, strange ecological events and dubious auguries. They trace rivers, coastlines and other borders, where saints set sail in boats of stone, wolves stalk the suburbs of Chernobyl and scientists leap from cliffs dressed in coats of feathers. Told through the voices of birds, unreliable seers and broken bones found in rivers and museums, these dark, playful poems explore prophecy and ritual, science and uncertainty in the era of climate change.

Table of Contents:
Augury with Rubber Ducks 1 The Weather Station 2 St Peter and the Storm Petrels 3 Oystercatchers 4 The Stone Boats of the Saints 5 Black Swans 6 Flood Spiders 7 Sea Augury 8 Turnstones 9 Ordinary Surface Birds 10 Dipper 11 St Ronan's Chapel 12 Magpie Words 13 Nightbird Riddles 14 Barn Owl 14 Woodcock 15 Tawny Owl 16 from Lessons in Augury 17 Lesson I: Introductions 17 Lesson XVII: Defining Terms 18 Lesson XXIX: Difficult Customers 20 The Final Lesson: Retirement Plans 21 Derangements of Scale 22 The Death of Calchas 24 Odin's Ravens 25 In the Everglades 26 The First Bear 27 Unidentified Bones 28 Archaeopteryx 30 The Wolves of Chernobyl 31 Sky Burial 32

About the Author :
Ben Smith's poetry, criticism and short fiction has been published in a wide range of magazines, anthologies and journals. He completed a PhD on Environmental Poetry at Exeter University and currently lives in Devon.

Review :
"To say that these closely-woven poems are storm-warnings of environmental crises is true enough, or equally to say they ground their intelligent apprehensions in observation of bird species vivid and specific enough to satisfy an ornithologist. What you might not expect from these descriptions is that they are beautiful. That is the most unsettling thing of all." - Philip Gross "These poems are something special. They shift the ground from under you like the subtle movement of tectonic plates. This is the proper stuff: succinct, observant, taut with precision; poetry that magnifies and strangely changes the way we see the world." - Miriam Darlington "Ben Smith's poems are deeply attuned to what remains in us of the wild. Intensely lyric, playful, sharp-eyed and inventive, they immerse themselves in the elements and come back feeling fresh, renewed, alive." - Andy Brown


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781905208296
  • Publisher: Worple Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Worple Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1905208294
  • Publisher Date: 05 Nov 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 4 mm


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