Critics say John Parkinson's book "Visual Verse" is "a beautiful and inspirational coupling of photography and poetry"

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A note from the publisher:

John Parkinson has been making landscape/nature images for more than thirty-five years. He is an incredibly accomplished professional photographer, whose work can be seen all over the world, even in the corridors of the United States Congress. He is also an artist, a man of sensitivity, with a great appreciation for the natural beauty in the world. In his book, Visual Verse: Art in Nature with Symbiotic Verse, he shares the inspirational vision he sees through his camera lens, but he goes even further than that: he enhances that vision by pairing his images with what he calls "symbiotic poetry."

A symbiotic relationship is one that benefits both parties, and that is certainly the case here. His photographs are extremely inspiring in themselves, but the poetry linked to them reinforces and intensifies the uplifting feelings viewers experience when looking at the images. At the same time, the sentiments expressed in the poetry touch the reader/viewer even more deeply when enhanced by Mr. Parkinson's visuals.

More than one hundred photographs are superbly reproduced in this book.  Twenty-five of them are paired with symbiotic verse.  They showcase wonderful landscapes in some of the most glorious areas of North America: British Columbia, The Colorado Plateau and the author's native Utah.  John Parkinson himself wrote six of the poems, and the other nineteen are by poets such as Emily Bronte, Robert Service, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

In addition to the lovely collection of photographs and their companion poems, Mr. Parkinson has also included in-depth, fascinating notes on how, when and where each of the images was made. This book is an ideal gift for lovers of landscape photography, poetry, and those who have an interest in photographic techniques.  It is generously sized at 10.2 by 11.8 inches, hardbound, with a dust jacket and will be a great addition to your library or coffee table.