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**MiniMia** @fkamiah17 · Mar 27

Mar 27

MiniMia @fkamiah17

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Note: Superkings are a brand of cigarettes.

'The Heron', by Paul Farley

One of the most begrudging avian take-offs
is the heron's 'fucking hell, al right, all right,
I'll go to the garage for your fucking fags'
cranky departure, though once they're up
their flight can be extravagant. I watched
one big spender climb the thermal staircase,
a calorific water spout of frogs
and sticklebacks, the undercarriage down
and trailing. Seen from antiquity
you gain the Icarus thing; seen from my childhood
that cursing man sets out for Superkings,
though the heron cares for neither as it struggles
into its wings then soars sunwards and shrugs
its huge overcoat across the earth.

#Poetry #Birds

**handmade ghost** @handmade_ghost@sunny.garden · Mar 27

Mar 27

handmade ghost @handmade_ghost@sunny.garden

@fkamiah17 This is soooo accurate!

MiniMia @fkamiah17@syzito.xyz

@handmade_ghost Right? I like the way Muldoon does this in his poems sometimes - marries nature poetry with observations of day to day life. Simon Armitage is another one.

Mar 27, 2025, 03:06 PM·

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**handmade ghost** @handmade_ghost@sunny.garden · Mar 27

Mar 27

handmade ghost @handmade_ghost@sunny.garden

@fkamiah17 I don't know Armitage's work well (don't worry--already noting down to follow up on and remedy!), but Muldoon is very much a favorite of mine for this. Also Galway Kinnell.

**MiniMia** @fkamiah17 · Mar 27

Mar 27

MiniMia @fkamiah17

@handmade_ghost My brain's failing to drag my favourite ones out of the memory box atm. Enjoy your investigations! He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford before he was Poet Laureate; some of the lectures are publicly available and well worth listening to. He also had a pod called The Poet Laureate Has Gone To His Shed during lockdown, which is fab.
Love Galway Kinnell

https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/poetry-simon-armitage

podcasts.ox.ac.ukPoetry with Simon ArmitagePoet, playwright and novelist, Simon Armitage was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 2015. This series features his public engagements. Series image credit Paul Wolfgang Webster.