Today the Birds Will Sing: Collected Poems - Hardcover

Helen Burke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1908853697 ISBN 13: 9781908853691

Publisher: Valley Press, 2017

Synopsis

Limited edition 300 page hardback, including poetry, art and notes by the much loved writer

Since the late 1970s, Helen Burke's poems have appeared in pamphlets, on greetings cards, on pieces of origami, on radio, on tape, on CD, on the side of stray dogs and in a million other places including, more recently, two collections from Valley Press.

After a year's work tracking them down, typing them up, and putting them into a sensible order, we re delighted to present Today the Birds Will Sing; a comprehensive, exhaustive treasury of Helen's writing. Besides the poems, these 300 pages are filled with Helen's illustrations, family photos, and reams of notes explaining where on earth all this came from.

We feel it's no overstatement to say this is the one book that everyone should own; an unprecedented and unexpected treat that should entertain Helen's fans, new and old, for the next few centuries at least.

About this title

About the Author

Helen Burke was born in Doncaster, 1953, and started writing poetry in 1969. Since then she has amassed an impressive record of competition victories, including the Manchester International, the Suffolk Poetry Prize, and the Ilkley Literature Performance Poetry Prize (twice). Her work has been published in Rialto, New Welsh Review, Northwords, Dream Catcher, as well as in numerous anthologies and pamphlets.

Her full-length collections of poetry are The Ruby Slippers (2011), and Here's Looking at You Kid (2014), both published by Valley Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Valley Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908853697
• ISBN 13: 9781908853691
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Helen Burke
• Number of pages: 300