Bee Journal

Sean Borodale (author)

Bee Journal is a poem-journal of beekeeping that chronicles the life of the hive.

It observes the living architecture of the comb, the range and locality of the colony; its flights, flowers, water sources, parasites, lives and deaths. Because of its genesis as a working journal, there is here an unusual intimacy and scrutiny of life and death in nature. The language is dense and clotted, the imagery thrillingly fresh, and the observing eye close, scrupulous and full of wonder.

Sean Borodale was born in London and works as a poet and artist. His first collection of poetry, Bee Journal, was shortlisted for the 2012 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2014 he was selected as one of twenty Next Generation Poets. He currently teaches Creative Writing at Royal Holloway.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage Classics; 1st edition (5 May 2016)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1784871130
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 1.2 x 17.8 cm