{"product_id":"wingers-and-leapers-and-creepers-9781915045027","title":"Wingers and Leapers and Creepers","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael Glover\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: 1889 Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: 1889 Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Animals \u0026amp; Nature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn holiday in France, during a particularly warm spell, the exotic bugs descend. Many would reach for the citronella candles, or worse - the fly-swat and toxic aerosols to go on a killing spree like some insecticidal maniac. Not so an artist like Ruth Dupré. Instead she recorded their characters, their quirks, their oddities, in ink onto delicate Japanese paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComing to these pictures later, Michael Glover was taken back to those heady summer days, and this collection of poems - of artfully chosen words about those wingers, leapers and creepers - was the result. Each poem is accompanied by one of the original monoprints.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWingers and Leapers and Creepers is a homage to all bug-life: the true rulers of the world, upon which we, and all life on Earth, depend. Perhaps we can learn to love them a little more...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"1889 Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45137563025559,"sku":"9781915045027","price":1306.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781915045027.webp?v=1767909633","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/wingers-and-leapers-and-creepers-9781915045027","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}