Nature Poems to See By

Julian Peters is an illustrator and comic book artist living in Montreal, Canada, who focuses on adapting classical poems into graphic art. His work has been exhibited internationally and published in several poetry and graphic art collections. Peters holds a master’s degree in Art History, and in 2015, served as "Cartoonist in Residence" at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.

A stunning ode to nature poetry. . . . Peters employs a wide variety of artistic styles and media, reflecting varied themes of connectedness to nature, including celebration, grief, and love. . . . The thoughtful execution infuses the verses with new meaning and lends itself to rich discussion. —Kirkus ReviewsAcclaim for Poems to See By:Comics artist Julian Peters performs a sleight-of-paintbrush, as it were, with an array of powerful verses. . . . Mr. Peters writes that his motivation for translating great poetry into the visual language of comics was ‘for love of beauty.’ In this he has undoubtedly succeeded; reading Poems to See By is a stirring experience. —The Wall Street Journal By creating interesting juxtapositions of text, imagery, and illustration style, cartoonist Peters elevates each of the 24 visualizations of classic poems here into something much more interesting than mere translation. . . . Peters’s virtuosity as an illustrator and keen understanding of the texts included here results in a beautiful, memorable volume. —Library Journal

• SummerDaybreak in Alabama, Langston Hughes Adlestrop, Edward Thomas And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time ( Jerusalem), William BlakeSonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?, William Shakespeare Truth, Gwendolyn Brooks Fern Hill, Dylan Thomas AutumnMushrooms, Sylvia Plath There Came a Wind Like a Bugle, Emily Dickinson To a Mouse, Robert Burns Butchering, Rhina P. Espaillat This Land Is a Poem, Joy Harjo The Voice of God, Mary KarrWinterThree Haikus About the Moon, Matsuo Bashō, Masaoka Shiki, Ueda Chōshū The Eagle, Alfred, Lord Tennyson Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert FrostNot Waving but Drowning, Stevie Smith Alone Looking at the Mountain, Li Po Fog, Carl SandburgSpringi thank You God for this amazing, e. e. cummings Sandpiper, Elizabeth Bishop A Birthday, Christina RossettiThe Trees, Philip LarkinI Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William WordsworthGod's Grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins