The Bird Room - Gorman, Dawn
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Dawn Gorman sometimes wonders if she wasn't born, but hatched. Her cot, then childhood bed, were positioned in a small corner of her ornithologist father's study, known as 'the bird room': the epicentre of his lifelong obsession with birdwatching. But in spite of being immersed in this world of birds, Dawn resisted their appeal, and it was only when her father began his slow decline towards his death in 2020 that she started to hear them calling her. Too late to 'go birding' with him, this pamphlet has offered her a different way to collaborate with her father about those things of feather,…mehr

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Dawn Gorman sometimes wonders if she wasn't born, but hatched. Her cot, then childhood bed, were positioned in a small corner of her ornithologist father's study, known as 'the bird room': the epicentre of his lifelong obsession with birdwatching. But in spite of being immersed in this world of birds, Dawn resisted their appeal, and it was only when her father began his slow decline towards his death in 2020 that she started to hear them calling her. Too late to 'go birding' with him, this pamphlet has offered her a different way to collaborate with her father about those things of feather, flight and song - albeit posthumously on his part. Here she brings together some of the bird photographs he took during her childhood in the 1960s and a selection of her poems, to explore the impact of his birdwatching on her, on their relationship with each other, and on her own attitude to birds. Ultimately, though, this collaboration has at its heart not birds, but that other looked-for thing, love.
Autorenporträt
Dawn Gorman is a creative writing tutor and mentor, and works with poetry in therapeutic settings. She is Poetry Editor of Caduceus magazine, and presents The Poetry Place monthly radio show on West Wilts Radio. She collaborates widely - her work has been turned into a symphony, films, porcelain artworks and dance, and has appeared in journals including Poetry Ireland Review, Under the Radar, Iota, Magma and The Rialto. Her publications include the Brian Dempsey Award winner Instead, Let Us Say (Dempsey & Windle, 2019), and two Pushcart Prize-nominated pamphlets - This Meeting of Tracks, published in the four-poet book Mend & Hone (Toadlily Press, 2013), and Aloneness is a Many-Headed Bird (Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2020), a conversation in poetry with Rosie Jackson.