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    612-822-4611

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My Jackdaw Days and Corvid Ways

My Jackdaw Days and Corvid Ways

Buss, Anna-Marie
Donaldson, James

Paperback

Poetry Anthologies

ISBN13: 9798284644256
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 20 2025
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This evocative collection of poems and dialogues is a meditation on memory, identity, and the ever-shifting lens through which one sees the world. Woven with threads of melancholy and quiet reflection, the poems drift between the deeply personal and the symbolically universal. Birds, particularly Corvids such as Jackdaws, feature prominently throughout, serving not only as metaphors but as alter egos, shadowy companions through landscapes of thought and feeling. The Jackdaw, with its glinting eye and quiet observance, becomes a recurring figure, flitting between grief and insight, detachment and intimate knowing.

The poetic form is intentionally fluid, free verse that echoes thought's natural rhythm is interspersed with moments of traditional rhyme and metre, grounding the reader even as the content questions the very foundations of experience. These are poems shaped by a life observed closely, filtered through moments of silence, loss, and unspoken longing.

In counterpoint to the lyric introspection of the poetry are a series of dialogues that summon voices from history, literature, and myth. Imagined conversations unfold between figures as disparate as kings and prophets, betrayers and betrayed. In these dialogues, abstract themes, power, betrayal, monarchy, mortality, the nature of existence, are made tangible through character and voice. The effect is theatrical and philosophical, like eavesdropping on the mind's most intimate debates, dramatised by the shadows of archetypal figures.

Together, the poems and dialogues form a textured mosaic, a work of dark grace that speaks to the quiet turmoil of being, and the strange solace that can be found in listening to birds, or to ghosts.

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