Sparrows at the Breakfast Table by Richard Douglas Pennant Nick Laird and to explore other lives

and to explore other lives with the same attentiveness and concision she brings to her own experiences

as is the influence of ancient forms

Blending the eerie musicality of children’s rhymes with echoes of traditional balladry and free verse

‘Stark

of climate

Sparrows at the Breakfast Table by Richard Douglas Pennant Nick Laird and to explore other livesBeautifully observed and written with a lightness and freshness that breathes life through every poem, Sparrows at the Breakfast Table invites us into a place of wonder and love. These family moments, most acute between a grandfather and grandson, are filled with gentle humour and deep tenderness. And there is nothing shallow here these poems are not whimsies but serious reflections on the bonds we make across generations and how they go on