The Birds and the Bees series from Vintage Classics - beautiful editions of the finest British nature writing
Sean Borodale was born in London and works as a poet and artist. His first collection of poetry, Bee Journal, was shortlisted for the 2012 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2014 he was selected as one of twenty Next Generation Poets. He currently teaches Creative Writing at Royal Holloway.
Sean Borodale is without doubt the most exciting new poet I have
read since Alice Oswald. His Bee Journal raises the bar for
us all and announces a thrilling new voice in British poetry --
Carol Ann Duffy
Truly heady and intense poems, honey itself in poetic form, a
sustained tour de force of language and thought -- Simon
Armitage
This book is a kind of uncut home-movie of bees. I like its oddness
and hurriedness, its way of catching the world exactly as it
happens in the split-second before it sets into poetry. These are
pre-poems, note-poems dictated by phenomena. Their context is bees,
but their subject (intriguingly) is Time... -- Alice Oswald
Harbours great energy and abundant imagination...a strikingly
original voice * Resurgence *
Borodale is an extremely accomplished poet...the most beautiful
expression of what it is like to live with bees that you could hope
to find...they show a wonderful clarity of thought and expression
and a great talent for capturing an impression. The recent rising
popularity of beekeeping has spawned a number of popular books on
the subject but this towers above them all in ambition and
emotional effect. It is an exquisite window into bees and
beekeeping -- Ian Douglas * Telegraph *
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