Welcome to Nature Book Club! Here we will share what our book club is reading each month!

Our small stack of books reflects the small gathering of readers we had this month, but as a result we were able to share several poems each from our selected books!

In honour of National Poetry Month, the Nature Book Club decided to read poetry for the month of April! Some children's poetry books also made their way into the pile of books: looks like we couldn't get enough children's literature in March!

The format for the list is as follows: Book title., Author, "Poem name"

The Lost Words. Robert MacFarlane

• “Conker”
• “Newt”
• “Wren”

The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science, and Imagination (A Poetry Speaks Experience). Mary Ann Hoberman and Linda Winston (ed.)

• “Bees Stopped”, A. R. Ammons
• From “March 1979”, Tomas Transtromer
• “Auguries of Innocence”, William Blake

Bright Wings. Billy Collins (ed.)

• “The Blue Booby”, James Tate
• “Peregrine Falcon, New York City”, Robert Cording
• “Cardinals”, Henry Carlisle
• “To a Farmer Who Hung Five Hawks on his Barbed Wire”, David Wagner
• “Lost”, David Wagner
• “Rose-Breasted Grosbeak”, Julianna Gray

Side by Side: Poems to Read Together. Karla Kuskin

• “Catherine”
• “Snow”
• “Spring Again”

Images of Nature

• “Poem for the Ancient Trees”, Robert Priest

The Ecopoetry Anthology. Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street (ed.)

• “Wild Geese”, Mary Oliver
• “Justice”, Janisse Ray

Art of Birds. Pablo Neruda

• “House Wren”
• “Common Diuca Finch”

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