The Birds, The Rabbits, The Trees is a collection of poetry simultaneously raging in its vitriol and heart breaking in its grief. Collins writes with an unapologetic intensity, exploring themes of violence, mourning, loneliness, and in doing so reclaims pieces of a self once shattered. Within these beautifully crafted sequences, the author holds up a mirror to the cruelty of the world and forces it to look at itself, rising up, not only to survive, but to become. Don't be fooled by its title, this book is not gentle. It is an opening up of things too often kept inside, holding deep within its heart a blistering truth that does not fail in its stirring of the soul.

- Stuart McPherson, Obligate Carnivore