An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and
testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative
art. The book opens at the birth, which paradoxically becomes the
moment of death when, after a long labour and an emergency
caesarean, the baby's heart gives out. For the mother, her body
flooded with endorphins, euphoria gives way to shock, followed by
an intense and visceral grief. However, just as grief itself is not
linear, so too the book follows an emotional rather than a strictly
chronological arc, lyric rather than narrative. At the same time,
McCarthy Woolf's formal experimentation allows an intellectual and
metaphysical line of enquiry to emerge. Ultimately, it is a closely
felt connection with the natural world, particularly with water and
birds, that allows the author to transcend the experience and
honour the spirit of her son.
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