BOOKS OF THE MONTH
Sep 09, 2022
2 minutes
By Kit Fan
The Slain Birds
By Michael Longley
Birds are some of poetry’s most intimate and mysterious companions: think of the owl of Athena in The Odyssey, the albatross in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner or Ted Hughes’s philosophical crows. The Slain Birds opens with a tawny owl killed by a motorist, later
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