Encountering the Incalculable
On Advising a Young Man from Galway To Do a Second MA in Biodiversity And evening full of the linnet’s wings — WB Yeats Not sparrows, not dusty summer robins — linnets. Her tidy brown self; His Nibs, top-nobbing the fence posts in puffy pink vest, white epaulettes. Linnets. Not the slender, moth-grey echoes of Inishfree and Jenny Lind I’ve…
Ann Skea barn owl Clare Island Granuaile grey seal Hilda Quick linnet Mark Cocker Matt Howard Michael Mackmin Norfolk RSPB short-eared owl The Rialto