Curlew Moon by Mary Colwell

Author:Mary Colwell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2018-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

And alone in the night’s eternal, curving act

They yearn with tongues of curlews for the unconceived.

But the curlew is also a raucous member of life’s rich menagerie, which wails, crows and screeches its presence to the world in wonderful tumult. In ‘Prelude’, Thomas builds a Noah’s ark of poet-creatures, a celebration of life on Earth. He surveys the variety of life from the woodland to the sea. He wonders at a ‘ruffled ring dove’ hooting in the darkening sky, and on the beach, where fishermen are ‘crow black’, the ‘shells/that speak seven seas’ lie on the sand as high-flying geese sail overhead. And then Thomas takes us

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