Wingers and Leapers and Creepers

On holiday in France during a particularly warm spell the exotic bugs descend. Many would reach for the citronella candles or worse - the fly-swat and toxic aerosols to go on a killing spree like some insecticidal maniac. Not so an artist like Ruth Dupré. Instead she recorded their characters their quirks their oddities in ink onto delicate Japanese paper.Coming to these pictures later Michael Glover was taken back to those heady summer days and this collection of poems - of artfully chosen words about those wingers leapers and creepers - was the result. Each poem is accompanied by one of the original monoprints.Wingers and Leapers and Creepers is a homage to all bug-life: the true rulers of the world upon which we and all life on Earth depend. Perhaps we can learn to love them a little more...