The Principle of Rapid Peering by Sylvia Legris PRE-ORDER John Sewell unsparing accounts and clear-eyed reckonings

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The Principle of Rapid Peering by Sylvia Legris PRE-ORDER John Sewell unsparing accounts and clear-eyed reckoningsPublished 2nd May 2024. Available for pre order. Self seeding wind is a wind of ever replenishing breath. from 'The Walk, or The Principle of Rapid Peering' The title of Sylvia Legris' melopoeic collection The Principle of Rapid Peering comes from a phrase the nineteenth century ornithologist and field biologist Joseph Grinnell used to describe the feeding behaviour of certain birds. Rather than waiting passively for food to approach them, these birds