Jackdaws Around a Distant Tower Author:Raymond Foster Poems of nature: a celebration of beauty, awe, wonderment and sometimes sadness - all the varied feelings induced by a lifetime's love of the natural world - as seen through the eyes of Raymond Foster and expressed in eloquent terms. But as he explains, it is not for us to feel passionate about these things; love of nature should be a passion-fr... more »ee love, based on observation and appreciation. The book's title, and the title of the first poem, Jackdaws around a Distant Tower, suggests how the joyful sound "jack...jack" of these birds circling a tower, the man-made cliff face that they have chosen as their communal home, gladdens the heart and seems to sum up the way in which nature's creatures have adapted to human civilisation.« less