From Sky dancer / Witi Ihimaera -- The kiwi / Eileen Duggan -- Kingfisher / Lauris Edmond -- Haast's eagle / Richard Holdaway -- Moa / Jon Gadsby -- An early bird / Steve Braunias -- Ko au / Ngoi Pēwhairangi -- from The naturalist / Thom Conroy -- Kakophany / Philippa Werry -- from The bright side of my condition / Charlotte Randall -- Haka, he huruhuru toroa / Muru Walters -- from Mr Allbones' ferrets / Fiona Farrell -- Buller's birds / Bernadette Hall -- from Magpie Hall / Rachael King -- from Belief / Stephanie Johnson -- The waxeyes / Sue Wootton -- A flight of starlings / Elizabeth Smither -- from Tutira / Herbert Guthrie-Smith -- from Haumoana triptych / Harry Ricketts -- Pigeon shooting // G. Allhusen -- Bird of prayer / Hone Tuwhare -- Huia / Claire O'Loughlin -- To replicate the last call of the huia / James Norcliffe -- The importance of New Zealand birds / Pérrine Moncrieff -- Takahe / Anna Jackson -- from A climber in New Zealand / Malcolm Ross -- Spring snow and tui / Ursula Bethell -- A hen and some eggs / Frank Sargeson -- Black-backed gulls / Ruth Dallas -- The birds began to sing / Janet Frame -- The parakeets at Karekare / Allen Curnow -- from The beak of the moon / Philip Temple -- Threnody / Denis Glover -- te tōrea/the oystercatcher / Michele Leggott -- The black robin / Hal Smith -- Bonking / Meg Campbell -- Heightened tones / Marion Day -- from Janet and the birds / Michael King -- For the one / Sam Hunt -- The owl that fell from the sky / Brian Gill -- As the godwits fly / J.C. Sturm -- from Islands of the Gulf / Shirley Maddock -- Refuge / Owen Marshall -- Six days south / Matt Vance -- Gannets / Diane Brown -- from The elusive language of ducks / Judith White -- from Boundaries / Brian Turner -- Magpies / Karl du Fresne -- Tiritiri Matangi / Janet Charman -- Australasian song contest / Kay Milton -- Night moves / Alison Ballance -- About a speckled egg / Claire Gummer -- Too busy / Kirsten Warner -- Giving the bird / David Hill -- Bye bye birds / John Ewen -- Love / Mark Broatch -- from Reach / Laurence Fearnley -- Inside the wild / Paula Green -- The flight of the godwits / Denis Welch -- At Moeraki / Mary Macpherson -- from Billy Bird / Emma Neale -- Bellbird / Abby Mason.
Summary:
"A lively anthology of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, celebrating the birds of Aotearoa ... New Zealand birds have inspired mythology, song, whimsical stories, detailed observation, humour and poetry. There are tales of shooting and taxidermy as well as of admiration and love. From the kakapo, kokako and kaka to the sparrow, starling and seagull, both native and imported birds have been immortalised in print. This is a varied and stimulating selection from the flocks of New Zealand writers who have given our birds a voice. They have brought extinct birds back to life and even enabled the kiwi to take flight on the page"--Publisher information.
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