DARKLING: THE OWLS SONG By Catherine Hyde

Prize-winning poet and artist Catherine Hyde celebrates the magic of the night from dusk till dawn as she follows the owl’s journey in a gorgeous gift book of full colour paintings.

‘I turn

to the old orchard

where she hunts:

a ghost glimmering

sweet heart of the moon.

Swooping between trees,

a beating clock of claw and feather,

hush winged, in half light’

As we sleep, the forest comes to life. The owl swoops. Moths dance in the moonlight, fireflies mimic the stars, a stag grazes, badgers burrow, foxes prowl, ferns catch the dew. Resplendent, arresting artwork sit alongside an original poem.

“Darkling is a magnificent praise song that honours both the darkness and the owl. Lyrical in both word and image, it is a wild triumph.” Jackie Morris