Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays 4th fiction Longlisted for the Women's Prize

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

From seeing to his patients in the depths of winter on the remotest homesteads to dealing with uncooperative owners and critically ill animals

and the most selfish boy in the Union make a strange alliance

and geological timescales--that can bring within reach a more humane

realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist

Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays 4th fiction Longlisted for the Women's PrizeA perfect introduction to Mary Oliver's poetry, this stunning collection features 26 nature poems and prose writings about the birds that played such an important role in the Pulitzer Prize winner's life. Within these pages you will find hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows and, of course, the snowy owl, among a dozen others including ten poems that have never before been collected. She adds two