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The Will of Birds extract   poetry   "I climb the grey stone stairs"
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 The Will of Birds
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Notes

  • Epigraph: What falls away is always. And is near. Theodore Roethke.

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    y separately published work icon The Wind-Up Birdman of Moorabool Street A. Frances Johnson , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2012 Z1881203 2012 selected work poetry

    In this stunning, visionary collection, A. Frances Johnson offers cautionary threnodies that muse on environment and the endurance of theme park notions of the natural, in spheres poetic and beyond. This is a richly varied collection: among moving lyrics of loss are dystopian visions, such as the last living bird with its wings and vocal chords sludged by the oily depredations of Exxon Valdez, hummingbird drones indiscriminately raiding and killing, and hybrid bird-humans blurring the boundaries between nature and culture to survive.


              Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2012     pg. 33
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The Will of Birds i "The parrot, like art, is 'mortal in its cornered sphere'*", A. Frances Johnson , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 24 September vol. 20 no. 18 2010;
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