Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings, prints and thumbnail sketches, this celebration of wildlife along the Thames in verse and prose is a loving and thought-provoking compilation of poems and prose-poems composed over a period of years by two inveterate river trudgers and wildlife-sketchers.
Short poems of intense observation, are mixed with urban myths, strange facts, and plausible fictions. The authors have walked the length of the Thames and back, recording every little twitch of bird and insect, and what they didn’t see they invented.

‘A deft mixture of traditional lore and dew-fresh observation, A Thames Bestiary offers us, by turns, a wry, tender, ribald and always joyful celebration of the wildlife still thriving on the banks and in the water of England’s one great river.” ~ Mark Cocker

Geoff Sawers is the author of Friends of Friends (Diehard Fiction Direct, 2024), Broad Street Chapel and the Origins of Dissent in Reading (Two Rivers Press, 2008) and illustrator of Rural Reading by Adrian Lawson (Two Rivers Press, 2019).