the new cockatoo

'the new cockatoo' is a pet, in a cage, and on social media. She is also the spirit of poetry. She has become a new creature, completely, f’d up in her new habitat, surreptitious, using stolen words, mimicking humans. Head in the clouds, Tania Bies sings and prowls in this ode to cockatoos that honours the sacred nature and extraordinarily achieved sense of humour of birds. "The poetry of Tania Bies comes as naturally to her as the bird's song. Even in the opening essay to the collection, her pen is strikingly poetic. This exciting collection gives you the most current example of her boundless creativity to date." —Freddie Bruhin-Price Published by Free Lines Press. With a foreword by Freddie Bruhin-Price. Cover art by Max Padma.