Erica Van Horn: Too Raucous For A Chorus
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.
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.
Description
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.
