Bee Journal (The Birds and the Bees) (Vintage Classics)

by Sean Borodale

Paperback, 2016

Status

Available

Call number

821.92

Genres

Fiction

Publication

Vintage Classics (2016), Edition: 01, 192 pages

Description

The Birds and the Bees series from Vintage Classics - beautiful editions of the finest British nature writing Bee Journal is a poem-journal of beekeeping that chronicles the life of the hive. It observes the living architecture of the comb, the range and locality of the colony; its flights, flowers, water sources, parasites, lives and deaths. Because of its genesis as a working journal, there is here an unusual intimacy and scrutiny of life and death in nature. The language is dense and clotted, the imagery thrillingly fresh, and the observing eye close, scrupulous and full of wonder. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

User reviews

LibraryThing member VioletBramble

A bee keeping journal in the form of poems.

20th April

Frost, and frost yesterday
and last night.

Strong little moon picked at your bones.

The pear on the brink
of unpacking it's blossom.

One-bee marquees,
nectar festivities, tents.

One-day-only stalls of druggy sugars,
the beers of flowers.

Everything is

dragged awake;
puts on it's music clothes.

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LibraryThing member edwinbcn

Bee Journal is a volume of poetry, the cycle of poems follows a year round of bee keeping.

On more than 90 pages, the author presents a cycle of poems, some short of just a few lines, and some long. Most poems are written in free verse.

Some descriptions in the poems were quite technical. Interesting

to read, but with emphasis on "interesting", not on "beauty".

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