Jeff Baker

Collins British Bird Identifier is a revolution in bird identification. It brings together exceptional new artwork, with a unique, practical and comprehensive guide to the 5 essential features needed to identify every species of British bird. The definitive guide to the 5 features that identify every species of bird Covers every species of bird seen in the UK Easy to use for beginner, essential reading for twitchers Allows everyone to identify birds quickly A checklist of what you should be looking for Simple code for common or rare species Colour code from when most likely to be seen Works as a stand alone book, or as a companion volume to your field guide

Winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry 2013Whoop & Shush is a book of poems obsessed with the ways we are bound, and bound together, by our language. Whether these poems are re-envisioning a childhood in the Appalachians of East Tennessee, calling out to Cherokee ancestors who no longer populate a lost homeland, or are giving new voice to a range of characters in surprising ways (Shakespeare's Caliban show's up at the US Navy's nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll and a deceased Elvis speaks from the afterlife), the central obsession with how language can strike notes both high and low remains. Whoop & Shush calls out from worlds where words carry a physicality of the intensely observed but do not hesitate to sing their way, through metaphor, toward places where strange wonders counterbalance the starkly real.