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Beskrivning
The Flight of Birds is a collection of fictional and ficto-critical stories, presenting encounters with a range of birds. Embedded in the fictional encounters is a philosophical and theoretical investigation into the ways humans engage with birds.
Joshua Lobb is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Wollongong. His award-winning short stories have appeared in The Best Australian Stories, The Bridport Anthology, Southerly, Text, and Animal Studies Journal. In 2014 he won the LitLink Unpublished Manuscript Award, awarded by the Byron Writers Festival and the Varuna Writers' House.
Recensioner i media
'Lobb’s writing is at many points sparse and straightforward, and at others more pungent and poetic, but underpinning the various virtuoso treatments of the material is an inch-perfect gauge of the weight of how a story unfolds in its telling.'
Innehållsförteckning
What he heardSix stories about birds, with seven questionsCall and responseFlockingDo you speak my language?Further to flyThe pecking orderNocturneMagpiesAnd no birds singAves admittantThe flight of birdsField notesAcknowledgementsWorks cited
