Speaking With Magpies

Author : James McGrath
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865345813
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking with Magpies written by James McGrath and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James McGrath is a master poet whose respect for all life rings through every clear strong word. Using simple language he effortlessly conveys the deepest and, at times, the most terrible truth. These poems are a gift of understanding.

Author : Ted Floyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1426220030
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Know the Birds written by Ted Floyd and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this elegant narrative, celebrated naturalist Ted Floyd guides you through a year of becoming a better birder. Choosing 200 top avian species to teach key lessons, Floyd introduces a new, holistic approach to bird watching and shows how to use the tools of the 21st century to appreciate the natural world we inhabit together whether city, country or suburbs." -- From book jacket.

Author : Royal Shakespeare Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking Like Magpies written by Royal Shakespeare Company and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlie Gilmour
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1501198505
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Featherhood written by Charlie Gilmour and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I loved every single page.” —Elton John “The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk.” —Neil Gaiman ​In this moving, critically acclaimed memoir, a young man saves a baby magpie as his estranged father is dying, only to find that caring for the mischievous bird saves him. One spring day, a baby magpie falls out of its nest and into Charlie Gilmour’s hands. Magpies, he soon discovers, are as clever and mischievous as monkeys. They are also notorious thieves, and this one quickly steals his heart. By the time the creature develops shiny black feathers that inspire the name Benzene, Charlie and the bird have forged an unbreakable bond. While caring for Benzene, Charlie learns his biological father, an eccentric British poet named Heathcote Williams who vanished when Charlie was six months old, is ill. As he grapples with Heathcote’s abandonment, Charlie comes across one of his poems, in which Heathcote describes how an impish young jackdaw fell from its nest and captured his affection. Over time, Benzene helps Charlie unravel his fears about repeating the past—and embrace the role of father himself. A bird falls, a father dies, a child is born. Featherhood is the unforgettable story of a love affair between a man and a bird. It is also a beautiful and affecting memoir about childhood and parenthood, captivity and freedom, grief and love.

Author : Frank McGuinness
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571301258
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking Like Magpies written by Frank McGuinness and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But I can hear them speaking like magpies, And they mean to thieve his life, The Lord's anointed servant, They mean to kill God. Speaking Like Magpies, specially commissioned by the RSC as part of the Gunpowder Season to mark the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, brings to vibrant life the background to this notorious event in British history. Frank McGuinness' play premiered at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in September 2005, its final performance marking the end of the RSC's Gunpowder Season on 5 November 2005.

Author : Kate Blair
Publisher : DCB
ISBN 13 : 1770865551
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magpie's Library written by Kate Blair and published by DCB. This book was released on 2019-05-25 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silva and her family visit her grandfather, only to find his health has taken a bad turn. As they struggle with this news, Silva seeks escape in books – at the local library. But she gets more than she bargained for when a magpie guides her to a secret, magical room containing books that she can not only read, but that she can live. Silva finds herself in the worlds of the characters … who all turn out to be real people. People she knows. There’s a catch, though: she soon discovers that the magpie has lured her to these books for selfish and dark reasons. Going back to the books could mean losing her soul …

Author : Janeen Mason
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781589808614
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gift of the Magpie written by Janeen Mason and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max the magpie is smitten with Regina the crow. He tries everything to impress her. Young readers will delight in seeing how these two birds navigate the pitfalls of courtship in order to find their happy ending.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poultry Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cameron Bloom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782119814
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Penguin Bloom written by Cameron Bloom and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They saved a little bird . . . And in return she saved them tooAfter a near-fatal fall left Sam Bloom paralysed, no one - not her husband Cameron, nor their three boys - could reach her in the darkest days of her struggle. But everything changed when a new member of the family unexpectedly landed in their lives: an injured magpie chick abandoned after she fell from her nest, whom they named Penguin Bloom. Powerful and tender, Penguin Bloom is a beautifully written account of how compassion, friendship and family can come from unexpected places.

Author : Elizabeth Eva Leach
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501727575
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sung Birds written by Elizabeth Eva Leach and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was resoundingly "no." In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces postmedieval uses of birdsong within Western musical culture. She first explains why such melodious sound was not music for medieval thinkers and then goes on to consider the ontology of music, the significance of comparisons between singers and birds, and the relationship between art and nature as enacted by the musical performance of late-medieval poetry. If birdsong was not music, how should we interpret the musical depiction of birdsong in human music-making? What does it tell us about the singers, their listeners, and the moral status of secular polyphony? Why was it the fourteenth century that saw the beginnings of this practice, continued to this day in the music of Messiaen and others?Leach explores medieval arguments about song, language, and rationality whose basic terms survive undiminished into the present. She considers not only lyrics that have their singers voice the songs or speech of birds but also those that represent other natural, nonmusical, sounds such as human cries or the barks of dogs. The dangerous sweetness of birdsong was invoked in discussions of musical ethics, which, because of the potential slippage between irrational beast and less rational woman in comparisons with rational human masculinity, depict women's singing as less than fully human. Leach's argument comes full circle with the advent of sound recording. This technological revolution-like its medieval equivalent, the invention of the music book-once again made the relationship between music and nature an acute preoccupation of Western culture.