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2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10In Australia, endemic species are prevalent within the biodiverse state of Queensland. Of approximately 600 bird species identified in Queensland, over 235 species are considered endemic. In Icelandic, endemi means ‘notorious.’ As an ecological term in English, endemic denotes an indigenous species unique to a specified geographic location and not found elsewhere worldwide. GIBBERBIRD traces a foreigner’s first tenuous steps into Queensland’s ornithological lexicon via unorthodox categorization and linguistic sorting methods.
NOTE: The printed version of this poetry suite is typeset in Courier New, since the text requires a fixed-width font in order to uphold the sensitive vertical alignments structuring some of the poems. Every effort has been taken to reproduce it here online.
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a rawlings is a poet, arts educator, and interdisciplinarian who has presented and/or published work in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, and the United States. Her first book,
Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006) received the Alcuin Award for Design. Her performance projects (including
echolology,
Órói,
Rule of Three,
Centre for Sleep and
Dream Studies) incorporate sound, text, movement, improvisation, and collaboration. rawlings received a Chalmers Arts Fellowship in 2009 and 2010, enabling her to develop and present new work in Belgium, Canada, and Iceland. Most recently, she was selected the 2012 Queensland Poet-in-Residence; during her tenure, she spent three months in Australia developing
Gibber, an interdisciplinary project that combines poetry, acoustic ecology, and counter-mapping. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Environment and Natural Resource Management at the University of Iceland.
