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All A-Flutter: Spiral bound book & 2026 calendar
An affectionate portrait of favourite birds in words, music, art & interactive audio – scan the book pages with your phone camera to hear bird calls and performances of the music and poetry. Scan the calendar to hear a tune and poem every month.
The UK, despite being a relatively small island, is absolutely alive with an abundance of birdlife. They soar around our cliffs and our beaches, and birdsong can be heard all over our fields and gardens, our towns and cities. This labour of love – two years of poetry, text, music and art in the making – has developed from a tiny wren’s egg to an enormous red kite, weighty and many hued. Along the way it has grown wings and persuaded us all to fall in love with it. We sincerely hope that on reading and perhaps listening to it, your senses take flight too!
The book includes sheet music for all the tunes, and copies of all the poems. You will receive an audio download straight away. The book and calendar will be sent to you in the post.
Sample track:
Contents/Track list:
1. Blackbird (poem), The Happy Blackbird (tune)
2. Joe the Crow (poem), Murder in the Air (poem), Wing Commander’s Hornpipe (tune)
3. Tiny Rainbow Warriors (poem & tune)
4. Heron (poem & tune)
5. War Cry of the Herring Gull (poem), Worms and Chips (tune)
6. Kingfisher (poem & tune)
7. Tyne Bridge Kittiwakes (poem), Kittiwake Hornpipe (tune)
8. Lapwing (poem), Peewit Jig (tune)
9. One for Sorrow (poem), Mr Magpie (tune)
10. Little Owl on Big Gate (poem), Little Owl (tune)
11. Parakeets (poem), Fly Free (tune)
12. Home Thoughts From Abroad (poem), Pigeons and Poppies (tune)
13. Rufous Red Kite (poem), Rufous (tune)
14. Robin (poem), Jackets of Red (tune)
15. Sparrow (poem), Private Sparrow (tune)
16. Murmuration (poem), Murmurations (tune)
17. Song Thrush (poem), Mavis (tune)
18. Blue Tit (poem), The Coal Tit’s Return (poem), Tiny Generators (tune)
19. Woodpecker, Woodpecker (poem), Woodpecker Mazurka (tune)
20. Wren (poem & tune)
Music by Miggins Fiddle (Marina Dodgson & Maurice Condie). Poetry by Harry Gallagher. Paintings by Bridget Gallagher.
