Aviary of Small Birds by Karen McCarthy Woolf Geomantic Miles Salter

Miles Salter

concluding with a selection of new poems

not to mention the events and circumstances which are beyond their control

acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of knowledge

both personal and public

Aviary of Small Birds by Karen McCarthy Woolf Geomantic Miles SalterAn 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 to shock, followed by an intense and visceral grief. However, just as grief itself is not