Books by Colin Simms

These verses are from goshawk observations since 1955; my first experiences of the bird in the wild overseas -- I have used almost entirely only notes made at the time, in now well over 500 notepads, and diaries and letters; memory illumines only a narrow broken trail. (Colin Simms)

This volume brings together the majority of Colin Simms' poems that record his visits to Afghanistan, as a naturalist, during the 1980s. Approximately half of the poems previously appeared in two editions of a volume called In Afghanistan, from Writers Forum (1995 and 2001).

Includes a collection of poems by a naturalist and expert on birds of prey on the subject of gyrfalcons, magnificent raptor birds that he has studied in Britain, North America, Iceland and Siberia. This book also contains some field drawings of the birds.

"Otters and Martens" is the largest collection of poetry to date by this renowned naturalist-author, one which fuses his scientific concerns, his observational skills, and his poetic sensibility.

Presents a collection of poems by Colin Simms - poet, naturalist, and lifelong independent observer. Born in 1939, he demonstrates the poet-naturalist's concern for precise observation, apposite language and cadence. North American wildlife and the Native American tribes, and their history, have been his life-long fascination.