Birds Knit My Ribs Together (Paperback)

Phil Barnett

ISBN 10: 1913665917 / ISBN 13: 9781913665913

Editore: Arachne Press, London, 2024

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Paperback. what if / I actually am a bird / my cupped hands / opening to release me. Phil Barnett's relationship with birds is so close that his poetry blurs the distinctions between himself and the birds - a kind of ornimorphology where rather than giving the birds human characteristics, the reverse happens, and he imagines himself as a bird. Phil Barnett is a photographer, writer, musician, artist and naturalist, who has a passion for the birds that kept him company through a long hard illness. His photography and poetry have quite a following on social media, which is where we found him, on The Daily Haiku. His skill as a photographer leads to an acute visual sensibility, and his slow recovery moves from a tick sheet his mother had to fill in for him, to extraordinary poetry - full of wit and wonder and spectacular language. what if / I actually am a bird / my cupped hands / opening to release me. Phil Barnett's relationship with birds, in particular, is so close that his poetry blurs the distinctions between himself and the birds a kind of ornimorphology where rather than giving the birds human characteristics, the reverse happens, and he sometimes imagines himself as a bird. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Birds Knit My Ribs Together (Paperback)
• Editore: Arachne Press, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1913665917
• ISBN 13: 9781913665913
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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what if / I actually – am – a bird / my cupped hands / opening to release me... Phil Barnett's relationship with birds is so close that his poetry blurs the distinctions between himself and the birds - a kind of ornimorphology where rather than giving the birds human characteristics, the reverse happens, and he imagines himself as a bird. Phil Barnett is a photographer, writer, musician, artist and naturalist, who has a passion for the birds that kept him company through a long hard illness. His photography and poetry have quite a following on social media, which is where we found him, on The Daily Haiku. His skill as a photographer leads to an acute visual sensibility, and his slow recovery moves from a tick sheet his mother had to fill in for him, to extraordinary poetry - full of wit and wonder and spectacular language.

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A decade long stretch of illness largely confined Phil Barnett to a living room. His patch was the view through the window. He had swapped the people, job, relationships and fully working body of his previous life, for a garden full of birds. It was made bearable by his fascination with all things avian. It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that he spent 10 years looking out of a window. He recorded and documented everything, producing a website. Although still affected by illness Phils daily walks take him around an area of fairly ordinary countryside in South Lancashire, producing both poetry and photography that is anything but ordinary.