migrating skies
autumn/winter 2004
 

The eye of the cormorant is emerald. The eye of the eagle is amber. The eye of the grebe is ruby. The eye of the ibis is sapphire. Four gemstones mirror the minds of birds, birds who mediate between heaven and earth.

Terry Tempest Williams
from Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Pantheon, 1991)

 

 

This issue features work on the theme of birds and skies by a wide variety of writers including: 

Larry Butler
Jim Carruth
Dominic Cooper
Anna Crowe
Alec Finlay
Jane Hirshfield
Duncan Gillies MacLaurin
Lucien Stryk

It is interweaved throughout with a feather drawing on tracing paper by Jean Johnstone.

 

 

 

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