I love Quentin Blakes books and illustrations, and read them a lot
whilst growing up, although he vies with Ronald Searle in my
affections. I remember well that Blakes crows were particularly nasty
pieces of work. Looking at QBs website -
http://www.quentinblake.com/books/books.html - I like the look of
"Promenade de Quentin Blake au Pays de la Poésie Française" - a book
for children of all ages!
I like the Speeches Of Birds as well and will seek it out.
Roger
On 3/15/06, Edmund Hardy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> with poetryetc email turned into a twittering machine birds have got
> everywhere in my mind -
>
> bird poems - I recently enjoyed Farrid ud-Din Attar's Mantik ut-Tair
> (Speeches of the Birds) in its rather elegant translation by E Fitzgerald
> ("I have provided a bird's eye view of the Bird Poem"):
>
> Then came the subtle Parrot in a coat
> Greener than Greensward, and about his throat
> A Collar ran of sub-sulphureous Gold;
> And in his Break a Sugar-Plum he troll'd,
> That all his Words with luscious Lisping ran...
>
> and i also re-read Quentin Blake's illustrated Eurip. THE BIRDS and his UP
> WITH BIRDS! While listening to that Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus, concerto
> with birds and orchestra, with the migrating swans in it...
>
> Edmdun
>
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