Wing [electronic resource]
Matthew Francis2020
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Matthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our
responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings
and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig
becomes a joyous incantation to the 'witchy-beetle, forkin-robin' of dialect.
His love of history, embodied in his acclaimed Mandeville and The Mabinogi,
gives rise to a sequence based on Robert Hooke's microscopic observations. There
are tributes to the poets Basho, Dafydd ap Gwilym and W. S. Graham, to
fireworks, apple varieties, and hot toddies. And, in a moving elegy for a friend
killed in a parachute accident, Francis shows us a vertiginous vision of a world
where even the dead 'sleep on the wing'.
Main title:
Wing [electronic resource] / Matthew Francis
Author:
Matthew Francis, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Faber & Faber, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (27 MB, 01:00:25 H)
Performers:
Narrator: Matthew Francis
Audience:
Adult
System details:
Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780571358649
Language:
English
BRN:
437094
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eAudiobook |