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Birds Flock Fish School

Birds Flock Fish School

Published by Véhicule Press  2013

Birds Flock Fish School sees language as an example of emergence, the spontaneous interaction by which birds flock and fish travel in schools. These shimmering poems—that try to ease the reader out of accustomed ways of understanding nature, mortality, loss and love—articulate a vast, roving philosophical curiosity channelled through urgent form. Using a voice both sophisticated and simple, these poems invent a new way of perceiving, a world where “everything unites, at odds with itself.”

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