Ornithologiae
(By Mark Beech)
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Herein, and alongside the more or less familiar, feathered avian varieties, you will find creatures of pure myth, impossibilities; birds reimagined, reconstructed; birds as symbols and metaphors for all that is both irreconcilably fascinating and alien to humanity.
The book comprises a total of 27 stories and poems, including, amongst other gems, a previously unpublished story by the late and greatly missed Ron Weighell.
The full table of contents is as follows:
Oystercatcher - Martin Ruf
Aberration & Essence - Charles Wilkinson
Ravenbaby - Die Booth
Chattering Pies - Henry Everett
The Spirit Plate - Sara Rich
Being A True Account of The Death & Burial of Poor Cock Robin -
William Curnow
My Love Will Shine from Depths Unknown - John Llewellyn Probert
The Sin-Eaters - Suzanne J. Willis
Pretty Bird - Florence Sunnen
Chanticleer & The Peacock - Rose Biggin
Huitzilopochtli - Lorraine Schein
Oileán na nÉan - Albert Power
The Jingwei Bird Filling Up The Eastern Sea - Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
The Hunger - Romy Wenzel
Leather Cormorant - Richard Gavin
Doctor Cuckoo - Douglas Thompson
The Dread Machinery - Martin Jones
The Owl is Called Mother - Rebecca Lloyd
My Avian Daughter Devours Meteors - Alicia Hilton
The Embassy at Fontainebleau - Damian Murphy
Eyes Like Small Black Stones - David Surface
Soul Catcher - Ron Jon
The Songbird of Medina - Karim Ghahwagi
Flight - David Yates
Calling - Ruhul Amin
Spirits of the Dead - Ron Weighell
Edited by Mark Beech
The book is a lithographically printed, 288 page hardback with colour endpapers; limited to 460 copies.”
