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Wing
Wing | Matthew Francis
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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'.
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Wing | Matthew Francis
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#Wing #PoetryMatters @TheSpineView

TheSpineView Wonderful! 🤩😊😍 4y
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Wing | Matthew Francis
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“Reading one September day
I felt it tickle the page
as if one of the letters
had broken free of the words.

It held two claws out in front,
the way a blindfolded man
protects himself from the wall.

I do not know what it was,
but I have set it down here

in case you should meet with one.“

- Creature
#poetry

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Wing | Matthew Francis
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Today's #bookhaul ??
I went to buy "Wing" by Matthew Francis as I loved his poetic retelling of 'The Mabinogi' a few years ago, and I'm looking forward to this new book of poems, themed on nature. While I was in the bookshop, a cute edition of Okakura's "The Book of Tea', Sprackland's "Strands', and a 1929 edition of Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" accidentally came home with me, too!
I almost bought Sprackland's, "These Silent Mansions", ??

Bookwomble ... a series of meditations on graveyards, but the subject feels too raw for me at the moment, and looking at "Strands", a series of meditations about things she found washed up on the beach, I was happily surprised to find the beach in question is the one in my hometown ?, so I bought that one instead.
[tagged book]These Silent Mansions: A life in graveyards
5y
Palimpsest Is the Idylls illustrated? I know there is a version illustrated by Doré, whom I really like. I‘ve stacked These Silent Mansions. Sounds intriguing. I‘ve read that people used to spend time in them as green spaces like a park. I‘m also interested in the idea of graveyards as Heterotopias. Your other books look great, too. Happy reading! 5y
Bookwomble @Palimpsest No, it's nut am illustrated edition (apart from a frontispiece sketch of a statue of Guinevere), but it is leather-bound, gilt-edged, and with marbled end papers. I've got an abridged edition of the Idylls worth Doré's illustrations. I'll post it and tag you 😊 I'll get These Silent Mansions eventually, but needed something about life rather than death at the moment. 5y
Palimpsest @Bookwomble it sounds absolutely lovely! I‘m a fool for a beautifully crafted book. Thanks! 5y
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