This week, we’re taking a closer look at my bird-inspired poetry collection, On Gentle Wings. This lovely collection is divided into four parts – In The Home, In The Air, In The Heart and In The Absurd – and is quite firmly inspired by our feathered friends of the sky. It covers a wide range of avian themes, from birds being pets and friends to their family structures, real or imagined, in the wild, and even some more outlandish depictions of birds as well. I hope that you enjoy learning a little bit more about this poetry collection!
On Gentle Wings
The Essentials
Bird-inspired poetry.
Genre: Contemporary/Nature Poetry
Age Range: Young Adult and above
Length: 174 pages
Themes: Birds, Family, Romance, Absurd, Nature
Excerpt
Shards Of Family
My singing sister sits
in a silver cage.
My voiceless sister lies
on a sodden riverbed.
Between them, I cry
in our homely nest.
I weep for my loss,
as well as theirs.
The Background
For On Gentle Wings, I wrote out every poem by hand in several notebooks before typing up the collection, and I actually ended up filling three notebooks and starting a fourth with all of the poems! This is definitely my longest poetry collection so far, and I’m really proud of it. I also worked with one of my friends, JaceEarts, who created the beautiful illustrations that you can see below for each section of the poetry and also the contents page. These illustrations are exclusive to the print edition of the book, which I do think makes it a little more special.
Is It Right For You?
Again, this is really a book for fans of poetry – there are a lot of poems in this collection so if you’re looking for a book where you can just sit and read through it and immerse yourself in a world of birds, then this is the one for you. If you’re a bird lover or an animal or nature lover in general, then you’ll probably like this one too. The eBook edition is available for free on Smashwords and the print edition is available at a discounted rate on Amazon UK currently, so feel free to check it out if this sounds like a book you might be interested in!
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Oskar Leonard 