BOOKS - Bee Journal
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990381
990381
Bee Journal
Author: Sean Borodale
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.9 MB
Language: English
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.9 MB
Language: English
Bee Journal is a startlingly original poetry sequence a poemjournal of beekeeping that chronicles the life of the hive from the collection of a small nucleus on the first day to the capture of a swarm two years later It observes the living architecture of the comb the range and locality of the colony its flights flowers water sources parasites lives and deathsThese poems were written at the hive wearing a veil and gloves and the journal is an intrinsic part of the kinetic activity of keeping bees making tiny regular checks in the turn around the central figure of the sun and minute exploratory interventions through the round of the year The book is full of moments of revelation particularly of the relationship between the domestic and the wild In attempting to record and invoke something of the complexity of the relationship between keeper and kept it tunes ear and speech towards the ecstasy of bees between the known and the
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