Lapwing by Hannah Copley
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2024 Paul Henry Words from the editor

Words from the editor

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and a cry flung into the universe echoing the cry of all babies

he sat with others at Fishmongers' Hall

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Lapwing by Hannah Copley<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2024</b> Paul Henry Words from the editorMigrating across voices and blurring the divide between bird and human, self and other, Hannah Copleys Lapwing explores restlessness, love, and ecological and personal grief in a vivid and incantatory sequence of poems. A lyrical biography of a bird and a fragmented study of a flawed and mutable creature bearing its name, Copleys second collection takes inspiration from John Gowers brid falseste of alle and its many literary guises. At the heart of