Aves is a lyrical yet clear-eyed flock of homages to the winged, beaked kingdom.

About the book

Aves - the Latin name for he zoological class we know as Birds - becomes, with the 's', an expression both of welcome and farewell. Twenty-two prose poems offer glimpses into the world of wild birds and the psychology of watching them. The book includes 'A Dropped Feather', a personal essay about a lifelong fascination for these vivid creatures that hover and circle above, and dart through, our days. 

About the author

Gerry Cambridge's books include 'Nothing but Heather!': Scottish Nature in Poems, Photographs and Prose, illustrated with his own natural history photography, and Madame Fi Fi's Farewell, both published by Luath Press. He is founder-editor of The Dark Horse magazine. His most recent publication is Notes for Lighting a Fire, published by HappenStance in 2011. 

Reviews

'Cambridge's knowledge of the natural world, and the human world, is transmuted by the imagination into the kind of wisdom that only a good poet can express.' 

- James Aitchison

'The exactness of Cambridge's attention to each bird, each word, transforms the nature poem into a unique kind of love poem. Here, the essential mystery of a being with a heartbeat that moves through leaves and light and time can be glimpsed on its way.' 

- Ann Stapleton