1999
First Published
3.05
Average Rating
78
Number of Pages
'The poems are particular, discrete responses to particular events & objects, often places. They play with the tension between a high lyric voice...orienting the reader in a field populated by different versions of the self & its relation to the natural world.' "Helen Macdonald offers one of the most sustained explorations of avian imagery in recent lyric poetry, & this extends to speculative commentary on the human domination of the airwaves for purposes of danger-signalling, sexual display & territorial assertion, from the radio telescope of Jodrell Bank to CNN." (Drew Milne)
Avg Rating
3.05
Number of Ratings
98
5 STARS
17%
4 STARS
14%
3 STARS
35%
2 STARS
23%
1 STARS
10%
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Author
Helen Macdonald
Author · 6 books
Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, and naturalist. They are the author of the bestselling H Is for Hawk and Vesper Flights along with Shaler’s Fish, a history of falconry, and two other books of poetry. They've written and presented award-winning TV documentaries for PBS and the BBC. Prophet is their first novel.
