We Lost the Birds

<p>In this exciting new pamphlet Ben Verinder takes flight to survey the human landscape. </p><p><br></p><p>At times sad and strange at others darkly funny these poems are marked by a deft use of language surprising conceits an elegant music and a riot of birdlife. </p><p><br></p><p>Throughout many of the poems there is a sense of humans and birds uneasily sharing the same space and while this work laments both landscape and loved ones it opens out into broader panoramas - a Yorkshire maggot farm the smallest distillery in Scotland a warehouse full of superannuated waxworks and an international crying competition.</p><p><br></p><p>This is precise inventive well-executed work. </p>