News at Eleven: Accordingly, Thomas Hardy's 'The Darkling Thrush'

is one of two poems included about the mistle thrush rather than the song thrush or the simple thrush, which also have two poems each. As Tim Dee explains in his foreword; where more than one poem is included it is in the hope that the echoes in the poems give 'a ghostly sense of birds through the human centuries'. This would stand as a good description of the impact of the anthology as a whole.

from Telegraph: The Poetry of Birds edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee: review

~~~~~~~~~~~