SOUTHERLY: VOL. 73, NO. 2
Brandl & Schlesinger, $29.95 pb, 239 pp, 9781921556500
Journals
Southerly, Volume. 73, No. 2
by Nigel Featherstone •
‘Each note of the nightingale’s song is sung in only one tenth of a second. For humans to be able to appreciate the nuances of those elaborate performances, the songs have to be recorded and slowed down for replay.’ So writes Teja B. Pribac, guest editor of the latest Southerly, subtitled Lyre/Liar. Pribac goes on to explain that her volume examines ‘emerging ethical implications of writing, with particular emphasis on representations of nonhuman animals’.
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