(Abbr) Ecstatics: A Language of Birds

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ecstatics a language of birds



Laura Drever Lesley Harrison

ecstatics

a language of birds

Brae Editions

Orkney 2011



auk far out, they hang together like notes on the wind a brown line above the swell



blackbird ecstatics. they sing a full song. they are a garden of song.

chaffinch sea pink, dry as lichen. a clot, slipping branch to branch.


Some pages have been omitted in this version – total length is 36 pages, with 15 drawings (including cover) and 21 poems.




gannet four o’clock. floating paper thin above the drop











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