Fulmars Wing

Think Of The Act Of Watching, Of Patient Observation, Even Observance. The Act Of Birdwatching Is For Hilton What Fishing Was For Hughes: The Attentiveness Spreads Out Into An Appreciation Of The Sorrow And Complexity Of A World Riven By Forced Migrations, Civil War And State-endorsed Ecocide. The Transcription Of The Troubled World Is Counteracted By The Wonder Of The Surviving Fragments Of Nature: Chiefly Birds, But These Are A Metonym For What Remains.- Giles Goodlandjeremy Hilton Has Been Publishing Poetry Since The Mid-1960s, And I Confess That Among The Welter Of Names I Had Forgotten About Him, Until This Work Pulled Me Up Short.- Peter Rileythis Is A Work That Has All The Line Complexities And Metrical Vigour Of The Verse Of G M Hopkins, Whilst Embracing The Darker Nature Of The Elder Eddas: Eddaic Crows Swarm With Fulmars To Witness The International Refugee Crisis Created By War.