Shearsman Books announces the publication of
Otters and Martens
by Colin Simms
Paperback, 163pp,
9ins x 6ins,
£9.95 / $15.95
Colin Simms – poet, naturalist, and lifelong independent observer – was
born in 1939, and lives as an author and freelance naturalist in the
North of England, with journeys throughout the northern hemisphere,
wherever his objectives live – his homes have been where the martens,
otters, birds of prey and other enthusiasms are. He is not an orthodox
conservationist, but insists on the privacy, ‘isness’, for wildlife
which modern trends deny. He also demonstrates the poet-naturalist’s
concern for precise observation, apposite language and cadence. This
concern for sound, including northern dialects, mark him a true heir of
his long-term mentor, Basil Bunting, a fellow-Northerner.
He has published thousands of natural-history letters, articles,
reports, scientific notes and papers, broadcasts and (above all) poems,
and his scientific work has an international reputation. He has given
hundreds of readings, and produced several paintings and prints of
mustelids and other predators since 1953, which have been exhibited and
are available in very limited editions. He has also made a number of
photographic studies of these same subjects. Most of his 1250 published
poems have been in small-press publications, and this is the first
larger-scale collection of his work — written and revised over the last
fifty years, in some cases. This will be followed by other volumes
showing the range of his work and experience.
Available from all good bookshops now, from Peter Riley and Alan
Halsey's mail-order services, or indeed from me direct. For those who
need to pay by credit-card, the book can be ordered from amazon or from
Salt's online store:
Amazon UK
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Tony Frazer
Shearsman Books Ltd
58 Velwell Road
Exeter EX4 4LD
England
Tel / Fax: (+44) (0) 1392-434511
http://www.shearsman.com/
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