Published 2021. Paperback, 90pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins. £12.95 / $22. Full-colour edition.
ISBN 9781848617483 [Download a PDF sampler from this book here.]

"In this poem-cycle, each bird was observed in its native habitat within the boundaries of the Sherborne diocese and then linked back to the missal by means of religious iconography, imagery relating to books, pigments or methods of illumination as well as bird mythology, the latter often subverting the original Christian intention." — Elisabeth Bletsoe

“The sheer pleasure in reading her work comes from its mix of registers, its variety of diction and the exceptional way in which she fuses experience with learning and makes it all appear so easy and as natural as breathing. Her work is rich and highly-textured and, although complex, never obscure or unrewarding.” —Steve Spence, Stride, 2010

“Elisabeth Bletsoe’s prose-and-verse constructions take on the beauty of densely sparkling mosaics.” —London Review of Books, 2010

“Rightly admired for her ingenious lexical device, she is skilled at blending dialectical vernacular with specialised terminologies from the natural sciences, historiography, folklore and taxonomy … her synthesis of heterogeneous glossaries lends a deeply nuanced interplay between laminate aesthetics in the bricolage, unlocking a range of associated impressions at the foundation of these resonant meditations.” —Chris Cornwell, The Lonely Crowd , 2017

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