The Return of the Cranes

In this collection John Heath-Stubbs's newest poems revisit the sounds—since he is now blind—of his favorite landscapes. Spending his formative years in the rural countryside, he learned to identify birds by their song and sound, and here he uses that experience to make new discoveries in form and theme. Technically brilliant, this work is also playfully irreverent when it comes to human folly.

John Heath-Stubbs has been awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and the St. Augustine Cross for his contribution to the arts. He is also a critic, anthologist, and translator whose works include Galileo's Salad, Artorius, and The Mouse, The Bird and the Sausage.

The Return of the Cranes

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Ostrich

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Mary Kingsley and the Crocodile

9

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Fanny Trollope and the Alligator

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Karawan

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Rhodope to Aesop

13

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The Musician Wren

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Epithalamium for Two Big Slugs

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George Orwell on Paradise

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Vision and Television

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The Burger King

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Bunch

21

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Going Metric

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The Decent Inn

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A Dream Transcribed

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Matilda

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Our Lady's Juggler

26

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The Miracle of Saint Nicholas

27

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The Five Faithful Serving Men

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The Brass Bottle

30

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Anti-Daffodil Poem

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Reader to the Kaiserin

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An Echo of Schubert

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Dinner in a Dinosaur

35

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Somewhat Too Sensational

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The Emperor's Parrot

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The Language of Birds

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Solomon Eagle

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Bournemouth and Brighton

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Sir Percy Shelley Speaks

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Conversation with an Extra-Terrestrial

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Just Enough Change

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Gay?

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The Frigate Bird in Love

48

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An English Idyll

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Ancient Wisdom

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National Tastes in Murder

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The Skeleton in the Cupboard

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Tinnunculus in Bayswater

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El Draque Forbids the Banns

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A Genetic Predisposition

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Senecio Recalls Playing Football

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Senecio and Lady Chatterley

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Class Distinctions among Lice

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The Millennium Bug

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For a Commonplace Book

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An Acrostic for the Omar Khayyam Club

66

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Omar in Autumn

67

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Kathleen Raine: A Tribute

68

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A Christmas Rose

69

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Just Once a Year

70

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Bede's Death Song

71

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Poem for Easter

72

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The Return of the Cranes

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