BLOODAXE WORLD POETS

An international series of vital voices in world poetry, all speaking to the general reader as well as to the poetry lover – major modern writers from Staying Alive and its companion anthologies.

mary oliver is one of America’s best-loved poets. Her luminous poetry celebrates nature and beauty, love and the spirit, silence and wonder, extending the visionary American tradition of Whitman, Emerson, Frost and Emily Dickinson.

The winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, she has lived for many years in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her extraordinary poetry is nourished by her intimate knowledge and minute daily observation of the New England coast, its woods and ponds, its birds and animals, plants and trees.

Mary Oliver is hugely popular in the States, where her many collections have sold hundreds of thousands of copies, but Wild Geese is her first book to be published in Britain for over 40 years.

‘Mary Oliver’s poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations’ – Stanley Kunitz

‘From the chaos of the world, her poems distil what it is to be human and what is worthwhile about life. Echoing the Romantics and Whitman, she affirms the value of aloneness with nature, of watching and listening’ – Library Journal

‘Oliver’s poems are thoroughly convincing – as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring’ – New York Times