Erica Van Horn: Too Raucous For A Chorus

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Hardcover | 12.5 x 1.3 x 18 cm | 64 pp

Coracle | 2018

Edition of 300

32 stories of about a page or so that tell of “the plight of birds encountered in local circumstances”. Erica Van Horn recounts episodes from her life in rural Ireland in which birds play a prominent role; she talks about Michael the adopted robin, her attempts to thwart local bird hunters, the difficulties of removing bird droppings from your windscreen, catching errant sparrows with a colander or the small tragedy of finding a bird with a broken neck below your window.

With lovely, delicate colour drawings of birds and objects by Laurie Clark that truly bring the stories to life.