In the Orchard

by Stevenson, Anne; Turnbull, Alan

• ISBN13: 9781910392836
• ISBN10: 1910392839
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-04-01
• Publisher: Enitharmon Press

Summary

In the Orchard is not so much a collection of poems about birds as a book of memories and rare moments in which a number of familiar birds have played a spark-like role in bringing poems about. They are chiefly lyrical in character and range in time from ‘Resurrection’ written over fifty years ago to recent poems like ‘The Bully Thrush’, but they are not ordered chronologically and shouldn’t be associated with events in the poet’s private life. The etchings by Alan Turnbull are the result of his patient and painstaking study of each bird as it relates to the poem in which it appears.

Author Biography

Anne Stevenson, an Anglo-American who has lived in Britain for many years, published eleven collections of poems with OUP before Bloodaxe Books brought out two further volumes incorporated into her collected Poems 1995–2005. Her Selected Poems were published by The Library of America, after she won The Poetry Foundation of America's Neglected Master's Award in 2007. Alan Turnbull studied Fine Art at Newcastle University and at Chelsea College of Art. In the mid 1990s he began making prints and etching now forms a large part of his work. His work takes the form of sequences of etchings often based on literary texts.