Publisher's Synopsis
West Country author David Axtell draws on his 1950s childhood and a lifelong interest in birds in this wide-ranging collection of poems, which includes sections on love and Cornish places. While at Exeter University he was encouraged by Ronald Duncan, Ted Hughes, Omar Pound, former Stand co-editor Ken Smith, Head of Department of English the Rev Professor W. Moelwyn Merchant and former Granta editor James Philip.