Songs for the Songs of Birds

Poems selected and read by the author, Don McKay, on the theme of birds, birding and flight.

The work of a much loved Canadian birding poet Songs for the Songs of Birds celebrates the way birds ""articulate the air"" and considers what the world would be without them. Narrated by the Author, the soundtrack features bird song recordings identified to species. Poems selected by the author along the themes of birds, birding and flight. Read by Don McKay. Listen to poetry while learning bird songs!

Most of the poems in this selection have appeared in previous printed collections of poetry by Don McKay. Many are found in Camber (McClelland & Stewart, 2004), some in Strike / Slip (McClelland & Stewart, 2006) and a few make their first appearance in this selection.

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Songs for the Songs of Birds

Poems selected and read by the author, Don McKay, on the theme of birds, birding and flight.

The work of a much loved Canadian birding poet Songs for the Songs of Birds celebrates the way birds ""articulate the air"" and considers what the world would be without them. Narrated by the Author, the soundtrack features bird song recordings identified to species. Poems selected by the author along the themes of birds, birding and flight. Read by Don McKay. Listen to poetry while learning bird songs!

Most of the poems in this selection have appeared in previous printed collections of poetry by Don McKay. Many are found in Camber (McClelland & Stewart, 2004), some in Strike / Slip (McClelland & Stewart, 2006) and a few make their first appearance in this selection.

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Poems selected and read by the author, Don McKay, on the theme of birds, birding and flight.

The work of a much loved Canadian birding poet Songs for the Songs of Birds celebrates the way birds ""articulate the air"" and considers what the world would be without them. Narrated by the Author, the soundtrack features bird song recordings identified to species. Poems selected by the author along the themes of birds, birding and flight. Read by Don McKay. Listen to poetry while learning bird songs!

Most of the poems in this selection have appeared in previous printed collections of poetry by Don McKay. Many are found in Camber (McClelland & Stewart, 2004), some in Strike / Slip (McClelland & Stewart, 2006) and a few make their first appearance in this selection.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 2000003485604
Publisher: Rattling Books
Publication date: 05/09/2007
Edition description: Unabridged

About the Author

Two time winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry (1991, 2000), Don McKay is also fondly known as an avid birder. For Songs of the Songs of Birds, his Rattling Books project, Don selected poems relating to birds, birding and flight. In 2007 Don McKay was awarded the Griffin Prize for Poetry for his book of poems Strike / Slip (McClelland & Stewart, 2006).

Dave Fifield is a seabird biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Service with a passion for recording bird song.

Two time winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry (1991, 2000), Don McKay is also fondly known as an avid birder. For Songs of the Songs of Birds, his Rattling Books project, Don selected poems relating to birds, birding and flight. In 2007 Don McKay was awarded the Griffin Prize for Poetry for his book of poems Strike / Slip (McClelland & Stewart, 2006).

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