Of curling waves
Tarka the otter enjoys his first exposure to the sea, with a wave being likened appropriately to a shell-fish.
'A...
Purple-streaked stems
I never knew that hemlock grew alongside English fields,
Of purple hue, it poisons you, and life to death it...
Like a broken viper
A wildly meandering river likened to a viper broken by a buzzard - Williamson's inventiveness is a wonder, and almost...
Sun-splashy ripples
You can feel the warmth of a summer day with diaphanous wings darting over glittering ripples.
'She heard the rustling...
Age-long silt
Time flowing and settling in sand and sediment, steadily accreting new landscapes.
'As the river grew older, so the meadows...
Scent as colour
I like metaphors that use one of our five senses to convey another - here a visual image serves as...
Of kingfisher colours
This description of a Halcyon Kingfisher packs a rainbow of colour metaphors, from pink to green to blue and brown. ...
Star-streaming claws
Williamson's book is about otters and water, as the medium in which they thrive, mate, hunt, play and escape, bubbles and...
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