“Utterly, breathtakingly beautiful … sublime.”
“A tender and powerful interplay between the inner life and the outer landscape.”
The New York Times Spelling Bee attracts a large following of enthusiastic word lovers who delight in the daily challenge of ferreting out a list of from a seemingly-random array of seven letters. A handful of Bee solvers delights in the challenge of composing poetry, essays, and more with words from the daily game. Portals compiles a selection of work by one of these “Hive poets” known as “peregrine from the rocky shore.” This volume, the third in a series, presents more than 150 poems (some not previously published) that explore our relationship with the natural world, as well as meditations on memory, solitude, and love. Readers who have come to appreciate peregrine’s poetry will be delighted to find 68 sonnets in this volume, along with the earliest poems in the Bartlett Bay series.