The hoopoe skips up to the book that’s fallen from my sleepy fingers. My half open eyes greedily devour its crisp jewelled crest, idly wondering if enough poetry has been written on this soft ...

T he hoopoe skips up to the book that’s fallen from my sleepy fingers. My half open eyes greedily devour its crisp jewelled ...

The hoopoe skips up to the book that’s fallen from my sleepy fingers. My half open eyes greedily devour its crisp jewelled crest, idly wondering if enough poetry has been written on this soft-spoken ...

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Kidnapped by the English as an 11-year-old in 1406, he wasn’t released for eighteen years ... In an etching by Jacobus Harrewijn, a more graceful unicorn flanks a hoopoe, a bird that the artist would ...