Whale Day by Billie Collins Katherine Horrex thriving or long-since shut

thriving or long-since shut

With a surprising number of unknown and obscure words

as he portrays

Few Caribbean poets have so sensuously observed the region’s natural world

intense readings by Maura Dooley and Philip Levine

Whale Day by Billie Collins Katherine Horrex thriving or long-since shut'Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins poem. He's a one off, an American treasure' Nick Laird These are poems of whimsy and imaginative acrobatics, but they are grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the proper way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and