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Blue Heart

"In words and pictures, a powerful, beautiful tribute to whales."

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October 2024 Book of the Month

Many of us won’t be lucky enough to see a whale but Nicola Davies has spent almost her whole life watching them and captures their magnificence for us in this beautifully illustrated collection of poems.

Her whale portraits, in deepest, richest blues and greys, convey the sense of these extraordinary creatures, while her poems are just as vivid, describing memorable whale encounters and whales themselves, different species and some individuals.

One poem encapsulates the struggle to comprehend just how big a blue whale really is, only when ‘I heard the blow/like a door opening in a cathedral/ or a stone dropping down into a cavern that could swallow Paris’ could she make sense of it.

There’s a poem about the thrill of seeing humpbacks for the first time ever; one on the awful catalogue of injuries inflicted on Right whales as they swim through oceans now some of the world's busiest shipping lanes. The poems are joyful, full of awe, or angry, always heartfelt. It’s a book to pore over, to take to your heart and to inspire your dreams.

Whales need our help, it should encourage young people to champion them too.

Andrea Reece

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