ARTICLES

• Johannes A. Smit Editorial | PDF
• Pat Louw and Travis V. Mason Introduction Birds: In and Out of Literature | PDF
• Syned Mthatiwa Bird Metaphors in Jack Mapanje’s The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison and Skipping Without Ropes | PDF
• Sr. N. Gloria Irenata Biyela (F.S.F.) Popular Predictor Birds in Zulu Culture | PDF
• Ruth Babra Gora The Role of Bird Characters in African Story and Myth | PDF
• Chris Low Birds in the life of KhoeSan; With Particular Reference to Healing and Ostriches | PDF
• Ian Glenn Levaillant’s Bird Books and the Origins of a Genre | PDF
• Pat Louw Reading Space and Place in Chris Mann’s Bird Poems in Lifelines | PDF
• Dan Wylie “Lines of flight”: Sydney Clouts’s Birds | PDF
• Travis V. Mason Toward an (Avian) Aesthetic of (Avian) Absence | PDF
• Myrtle Hooper “The long wait for the angel”: Sylvia Plath’s “Black Rook in Rainy Weather” | PDF
• Catherine Addison “Darkling I Listen”: The Nightingale’s Song In and Out of Poetry | PDF
• Leigh Taryn Laing-Cox “… singing at a work apart”: The Search for a Feminine Poetic Voice in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora | PDF
• Wendy Woodward “Who is to say … that the hen did not speak?” Bird Subjectivities in Some Southern African Narratives | PDF
• Pat Louw Review of Material Feminisms| PDF
• Priya Narismulu Springing the Cage: The Role of Engaging the Shades of Robben Island in Constituting the Field of Postcolonial Ecofeminism | PDF
• Judith Lütge Coullie Review of Celebrity Monkeys and Other Notables: Recent Life Writing Publications VI | PDF

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