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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 The Kindness of Birds
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'An oriole sings to a dying father. A bleeding-heart dove saves the day. A crow wakes a woman’s resolve. Owls help a boy endure isolation. Cockatoos attend the laying of the dead. Always there are birds in these linked stories that pay homage to kindness amidst loss, grief, discord and displacement, from Australia to the Philippines, across cultures and species. When we encounter that snag in the breath, that shadow of a wing, we hope to remember kindness. 

'Kindness cannot self-isolate. It moves both ways and all ways, like breath.'

Source : publisher's blurb

Notes

  • Author's note:

    For allthe grieving

    and al the kindness.

    May they keep holding hands.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Melbourne, Flemington - North Melbourne area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Spinifex Press , 2021 .
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      Extent: 220p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published May 2021.
      ISBN: 9781925950304

Works about this Work

Liminal Encounters : Short Story Collections by Paige Clark, Merlinda Bobis, and Luke Johnson Francesca Sasnaitis , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 438 2021; (p. 35-36)

— Review of She Is Haunted Paige Clark , 2021 selected work short story ; The Kindness of Birds Merlinda Bobis , 2021 selected work short story ; Ferocious Animals Luke Johnson , 2021 selected work short story
Liminal Encounters : Short Story Collections by Paige Clark, Merlinda Bobis, and Luke Johnson Francesca Sasnaitis , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 438 2021; (p. 35-36)

— Review of She Is Haunted Paige Clark , 2021 selected work short story ; The Kindness of Birds Merlinda Bobis , 2021 selected work short story ; Ferocious Animals Luke Johnson , 2021 selected work short story
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