An Aviary of Small Birds (Oxford Poets) By Karen McCarthy Woolf

Carcanet Press Ltd

Aviary of Small Birds\nby Karen McCarthy Woolf\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Karen McCarthy Woolf\nTitle: Aviary of Small Birds\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Poetry by individual poets\nPublisher: Carcanet Press Ltd\nPublication year: 2014\nISBN-13: 9781906188146\nISBN-10: 1906188149\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAn Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. The book opens at the birth, which paradoxically becomes the moment of death when, after a long labour and an emergency caesarean, the baby's heart gives out. For the mother, her body flooded with endorphins, euphoria gives way .