Blackbird, Bye Bye
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Blackbird, Bye Bye

  1. 63 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Blackbird, Bye Bye

About this book

Moniza Alvi's new book is unified by birds. Her creations 'Motherbird' and 'Fatherbird' are inspired by her parents, and by the loss of her father and by his emigration from Pakistan. Among the many bird-related poems are versions of the French poets Jules Supervielle and Saint-John Perse, and poems 'after' the paintings of the Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist Remedios Varo. Blackbird, Bye Bye is Moniza Alvi's first new poetry book since her T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted collection At the Time of Partition, published in 2013.

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Information

Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781780374222
eBook ISBN
9781780374239
Subtopic
Poetry

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Description
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Epigraph
  6. Motherbird
  7. Motherbird Can’t Fly
  8. Her Feathers
  9. The Egg and the Dream
  10. Motherbird and Her Life So Far
  11. Invisible
  12. Motherbird’s Ornament
  13. The Coldest Winter
  14. When Motherbird Met Fatherbird
  15. Golden Bird
  16. Motherbird Sings
  17. A Photo of Fatherbird
  18. The Afterlife of Fatherbird
  19. Chinese Story
  20. A Portrait of the World
  21. Creating the Birds
  22. Allegory of Winter
  23. The Empty Nest
  24. A Soft White Feather Lying on the Grass
  25. November Trees
  26. Stories
  27. The Callers
  28. The Vanishing Point
  29. Being Alive
  30. To the Birds
  31. Birds and Naturalists
  32. At the Frontier
  33. The Bird and the Artist
  34. A Long Reign
  35. Blood Feathers
  36. No Comfort
  37. The Tree
  38. Fatherbird’s Despair
  39. The Nest They Made
  40. Dark Bird
  41. What I hear now is tuneless
  42. The Mirror
  43. Less, much less
  44. Acknowledgements
  45. About the Author
  46. Copyright