Shaler's Fish

'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)