Where Calling Birds Gather
- Publisher
- Turnstone Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2013
- Category
- Canadian, Australia & Oceania, Birds
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888014146
- Publish Date
- Jun 2013
- List Price
- $17.00
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Description
Where Calling Birds Gather is a poetic journey spanning continents. From the Canadian Prairies we are wisked away to Australia and Ethiopia in search of exotic birds. Like the migrational patterns of the narrator's quarry, the poems crisscross and overlap, they are pulled across the land as they search for new tastes, smells, lives and loves. And as the hyena's cackle in the night and the Cassowary's peck at the side of the road, the memory of the open prairie calls. When the reader finally "tacks" for home they only have to wait until the next migration.
About the author
John Weier believes nothing is simple, especially his writing: his memoirs are novels, and his novels documentary. His poetry is prose and follows diary lines, his prose is poetic. The author of five previous collections of poetry, three works of fiction, two nature memoirs and a children’s book, John often writes about his passions, travel, birding and the violin. Weier lives and writes in Winnipeg where he also works as a luthier.
