Wing - Matthew Francis

Wing - Matthew FrancisMatthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation to the 'witchy beetle, forkin robin' of dialect. His love of history, embodied in his acclaimed Mandeville and The Mabinogi, gives rise to a sequence based on Robert Hooke's microscopic

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and he's joined by furry friends of all shapes and sizes

And through it all her kind

The Cat Prince pounces around the poet's emotional and physical landscapes

'No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity