Birdbook: Saltwater and Shore Kae Tempest while retaining a deeply-felt sense

while retaining a deeply-felt sense of connection with a planet in peril

where it resides and how it survives

fluorescent tubes and heaps of plastic bottles

inspirational poet

The selection ranges from early poems of feminist rebellion and tender observation of children to elegies for the poet’s father and close friends

Birdbook: Saltwater and Shore Kae Tempest while retaining a deeply-felt senseBirdbook: Saltwater and Shore is the final volume of Sidekicks hugely ambitious Birdbook series, which in its entirety presents a new poem and illustration for nearly every species of bird native to the UK, sourced from the very best contemporary poets and illustrators. Like its predecessor volumes, Saltwater and Shore is an alternative guidebook of sorts, finding fresh angles on the birdlife of seaside cliffs, salt marshes, estuaries and islands,