On A Bat's Wing: Poems About Bats Ghazi Algosaibi

On A Bat's Wing: Poems About Bats Ghazi AlgosaibiBats have had a bad press. Yet they snaffle bugs by the thousand And carefully clean their babies faces. Catriona OReilly, A Lecture upon the Bat Poets through the ages have written about love, loss, war and peace andbats. Emily Dickinson, Edward Lear, D. H. Lawrence and Stevie Smith as well as modern poets Seamus Heaney, Kathleen Jamie, Les Murray and Ted Hughes have found bats to be a source of inspiration and mythology, flitting in and out of human

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She lives in Nottingham and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Writing at UCE in Birmingham