The Flight of Birds
A Novel in Twelve Stories
The Flight of Birds is a collection of fictional and ficto-critical stories, presenting encounters with a range of birds. Embedded in the fictional encounters is a philosophical and theoretical investigation into the ways humans engage with birds. The stories tell and re-tell existing myths about birds in order to uncover their symbolic functions in contemporary Australian culture. More importantly, these stories consider the impact these myths have on actual birds.
Joshua Lobb is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Wollongong. His award-winning short stories have appeared in The Best Australian Stories, The Bridport Anthology, Southerly, Text, and Animal Studies Journal. In 2014 he won the LitLink Unpublished Manuscript Award, awarded by the Byron Writers Festival and the Varuna Writers' House.