<p>“A poetry of self-conscious listening, of placing sound carefully. Like the plover, here I am, sitting on this stone, testing out sounds and patterns in order to record how it is to be here in this now.”</p><p>—Lesley Harrison, “Do Birds Sing?”, in the PN Review</p><p><a href="https://www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/do-birds-sing/11958" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/do-birds-sing/11958"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/do-</span><span class="invisible">birds-sing/11958</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/language/" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/birdsong/" rel="tag">#birdsong</a> <a href="/tags/birds/" rel="tag">#birds</a></p>