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An adoration of Blackbirds (Turdus merula)

from Thirteen Ways of Considering Black Birds by John Bennett and John Laidler

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As he was dying of cancer, Henning Mankell, known for the Kurt Wallander novels, listened to Beethoven, Arvo Pärt, Miles, the blues - and Blackbirds. He thought an apt inscription on his gravestone would be, ‘I have heard the blackbird. I have lived.’

At boarding school, I would sing a soothing song: Blackbird singing in the dead of night...
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Henning Mankell, Quicksand: What It Means to Be a Human Being, (2014) trans., Laurie Thompson, Marlaine Delargy, Random House, 2016. He died in 2015.

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from Thirteen Ways of Considering Black Birds, released June 5, 2023

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John Bennett and John Laidler Sydney, Australia

John Bennett is primarily a curious poetic life-form.

John Laidler loves making sounds, and walks at approximately 4 km per hour.

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