He was also a political activist, and the young Gervalla-Schwarz’s life was turned upside down in 1980 when her family had to migrate to Germany shortly after her father escaped arrest by the Yugoslav Police because of his involvement in campaigning for more rights for ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, which at that time was autonomous province within the Yugoslav republic of Serbia.īefore they left, the family were subjected to threats, Gervalla-Schwarz told BIRN in January. She spent her early childhood living between Skopje and Pristina, where her father, Jusuf Gervalla, was a well-known writer, singer and artist. Spencer.īirdNote’s theme was composed and played by Nancy Rumbel and John Kessler.Gervalla-Schwarz was born in North Macedonia capital, Skopje, in 1971, when it was still part of socialist Yugoslavia. Satin Bowerbird ML 31901801 recorded by A. I'm Mark Bramhill.īird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. You can find links to those, and more episodes with great poetry, at our website. That's not who does the wooing.ĭonika Kelly is the author of two books of poetry, Bestiary and The Renunciations.
Like who will listen to the song of a nutbrown hen, right? Like that's not who does the singing. Mark Bramhill: And with the third and final part of this sequence, the speaker of the poem speaks to us directly to address the idea of wooing a partner, and how it can feel foreign, as though she is a different species.ĭonika Kelly: I think one of the things that the speaker knows is that she is not a bowerbird, right? And there's this sense of resignation. And it's driven a little bit more by sound, like the repetition of the O sounds: “groomed ground, his wooing place.” And I think that that movement into sound helps me, sort of, then figure out, oh, is this what I'm interested in? It provides that sort of bridge between the originary experience of watching the documentary and then why I feel compelled to spend time with this bird and with this image. It- the sequencing sort of allows the poem to build in different kind of way or resonate in a different kind of way. Watch as he manicures his lawn, puts in all placesĭonika Kelly: The second one shares the same title, it sort of creates a link where I don't have to refer. The sweet marrow, fields of grass and bone. Of blue, and then the island light, the acacia,
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Mark Bramhill: And this inspired a series of poems reflecting on the bowerbird, and this idea of courtship: Um, but that was, uh, that's, that's not really how that works. And I'm be like, “okay, great!” Let's just be clear. And then like a woman can just be like, yes, no. I just wish that there was like a dance I could do. Uh, and I thought there might be some comfort, uh, in having, having a system of my own. And this caught her attention.ĭonika Kelly: And so I turned to the birds cause they're much smarter than I am about these things. Mark Bramhill: Male Satin Bowerbirds will gather all the blue items they can find, build a beautiful structure called a bower, and do a dance to try to woo the females. : “When it comes to jewels, blue is undoubtedly his favorite…”
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A number of years ago, poet Donika Kelly was trying to figure out how to date, when she saw a nature documentary about a bowerbird.
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