Living Fossils are the Happiest Kind

<p><strong>Living Fossils are the Happiest Kind</strong> is a rare collection: it is both deeply thoughtful and hugely thought provoking. It is written with a masterly poetic skill: spare exact clever. It selects its subjects from among the most urgent problems facing our world and it treats them with an astonishing mixture of scientific understanding humour compassion and just a hint of world weariness. But this is no dry didactic diatribe. The entire collection is infused with the poet's love of the natural world his fascination and frustration with our own species and a richly humorous outlook which elevates the whole collection with a gentle optimism.</p><p><br></p>