A remarkable new book in praise of
marine fauna. Of Sea takes the form of a
poetic bestiary of creatures living beneath,
beside and above the water: in wetlands,
salt marshes and the intertidal zone. In a
sequence of 46 poems, Burnett captures
the world of cockles and clams, rare moths
and the humble earwig (to name a few)
with a precise and dynamic lyric that
seems always on the verge of music.