WHALE DAY AND OTHER POEMS

Billy Collinss new collection brings together more than fifty poems and showcases his deft mixing of the playful and the serious th at has made him one of our countrys most celebrated and widely read poets. Here are poems that leap with whimsy and imagination, ye t stay grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, d iscovers the original way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and even invites us to his own funeral. Sensitive to the wonders o f being al...[Read more]