An Aviary of Small Birds
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An Aviary of Small Birds

  1. 80 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

An Aviary of Small Birds

About this book

An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. Here, birth paradoxically becomes the moment of death when, after a long labour, the baby's heart gives out. However, just as grief is not linear, so too the book follows an emotional rather than a chronological arc. Ultimately, it is a closely felt connection with nature that allows the author to transcend the experience and honour the spirit of her son.

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Information

Publisher
Oxford Poets
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781906188146
eBook ISBN
9781906188252
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. The Undertaker
  7. Wing
  8. My Limbs Beat Against the Glass
  9. Morbleu
  10. Mort-Dieu
  11. White Butterflies
  12. Yellow Logic
  13. Missing
  14. The Paperwork
  15. The Museum of Best Laid Plans
  16. The Registrar’s Office
  17. Of August
  18. Pinhole Camera
  19. Portrait of a Small Bird on a Tree of 12 Metres
  20. Of Jealousy
  21. I Remember Your Mother Dying
  22. Where Steel Clatters
  23. Starlight
  24. Fragments
  25. The Scales
  26. Moon in Her Many Guises
  27. The Puppies
  28. The Iris Field
  29. A Small Ball of Mercury
  30. Circle
  31. Emotions
  32. July
  33. Bamboo
  34. August
  35. Of Roadkill and Other Corpses
  36. Against the Clock
  37. Otto
  38. Reasons to Fear Butterflies
  39. The Calf
  40. The Sooty Shearwaters
  41. Hawk
  42. Letter to Miriam
  43. A Matter of Gravity
  44. The Last Sardine
  45. Swim Often
  46. After August
  47. The Weather in the Womb
  48. As an Axe Misses the Tree
  49. An Aviary of Small Birds
  50. Tasting Note for Grief #17
  51. The Wish
  52. About the Author
  53. Copyright

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