D.H. Lawrence led me back to Florence. I’d visited briefly before, but returned in November 2019—a world away now—on a research trip for my next poetry collection, A Whistling of Birds, a collaboration with artist Douglas Robertson inspired by D.H. Lawrence and his nature writing, and Lawrence’s poems in Birds, Beasts and Flowers in particular. Lawrence was repeatedly drawn to Italy and wrote the early poems of the collection (and later Lady Chatterley’s Lover) while living in the area.
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