Who Are You Calling Vermin?

Pam Ayres' lyrical satire highlights the undercurrents simmering beyond the patchwork of fields, revealing the anger, frustration, and grief of the countryside's inhabitants. The animals have their say, demanding to know who is calling them vermin.

Format: Hardback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 08 September 2022
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

Perhaps the polluters will purify our streams.

Purify our waterways? In your bloomin dreams!

All will be rewilded, all will be renewed,

The country will look lovely,

But we won t have any food.

Our stocks will be sustainable,

The French will be our friends,

We shall live in harmony, until the bitter end.

Hidden beyond the bluebell woods and babbling brooks,

there is great unrest in our countryside.

In this lyrical satire, Pam Ayres highlights the undercurrents simmering beyond the patchwork of fields.

We meet the angry fishermen who can t afford to live in their own villages,

The indignant farmers who get the blame for everything,

and the old man grieving for the unspoilt village of his youth.

The animals have their say too,

From the persecuted grey squirrel who didn t want to leave America anyway,

The barn owl mourning his now-converted ancient barn,

and the humble maligned mole,

all of whom come together and demand to know:

Who Are You Calling Vermin?

Weight: 294g
Dimension: 147 x 199 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529149999