Piripai
by Leila Lees
Genre: Natural History / Poetry Prose
Piripai is natural history as prose poetry. It is a story of place, time and a subtle coming of age on the sand dunes between the river and the sea. The book is structured around twenty-six birds that inhabited Piripai, and ordered according to the time of year, beginning in spring and ending in winter. It is suffused with observation and memory, conveyed in a stripped-back style that both evokes and abstracts. Through the eyes of the book’s three characters – the girl, the woman, and the man – we learn about their family, their culture, their birds and the rough, beautiful land they call home.
- Hardback | 108 pages
- 127 x 203 x 10mm | 245g
- 01 May 2021
- Lasavia Publishing Ltd
- English
- 0995139873
- 9780995139879