£41.95

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£42 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

Wilfrid Laurier University Press Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay: 6 (Environmental Humanities)

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 70 days · 70 data points (no recent data)

Historical
Generating forecast…
£41.95 £39.85 £40.69 £41.53 £42.37 £43.21 £44.05 12 August 2026 29 August 2026 15 September 2026 02 October 2026 20 October 2026
View at Amazon ↗

Price data last checked 21 day(s) ago - will refresh soon

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↑ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey
↑ Forecast
where the price is heading next
↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range
↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 70 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price
70 days 0 18 35 53 70 £42 Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £42 (70 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £42 - £42

Price levels: 1 different prices over 70 days

Description

Ornithologies of Desire develops ecocritical reading strategies that engage scientific texts, field guides, and observation. Focusing on poetry about birds and birdwatching, this book argues that attending to specific details about the physical world when reading environmentally conscious poetry invites a critical humility in the face of environmental crises and evolutionary history. The poetry and poetics of Don McKay provide Ornithologies of Desire with its primary subject matter, which is predicated on attention to ornithological knowledge and avian metaphors. This focus on birds enables a consideration of more broadly ecological relations and concerns, since an awareness of birds in their habitats insists on awareness of plants, insects, mammals, rocks, and all else that constitutes place. The book's chapters are organized according to: apparatus (that is, science as ecocritical tool), flight, and song. Reading McKay's work alongside ecology and ornithology, through flight and birdsong, both challenges assumptions regarding humans' place in the earth system and celebrates the sheer virtuosity of lyric poetry rich with associative as well as scientific details. The resulting chapters, interchapter, and concordance of birds that appear in McKay's poetry encourage amateurs and specialists, birdwatchers and poetry readers, to reconsider birds in English literature on the page and in the field.

Product Specifications

Format
hardcover
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
30 April 2013
Listed Since
10 December 2011

Barcode

No barcode data available

Similar Products You Might Like

Ecology and Conservation of Birds in Urban Environments
77% match

Ecology and Conservation of Birds in Urban Environments

Springer

£113.97 20 Oct 2026
Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts: A Field Guide to Reading and Teaching
75% match

Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts: A Field Guide to Reading and Teaching

Routledge

£45.99 21 Oct 2026
Ecology and Conservation of Forest Birds (Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation)
75% match

Ecology and Conservation of Forest Birds (Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation)

Cambridge University Press

£86.96 27 Oct 2026
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
75% match

The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany

Nan A. Talese

£29.43 20 Oct 2026
Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination
75% match

Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination

University of Toronto Press

£42.62 27 Oct 2026
What Is Zoopoetics?: Texts, Bodies, Entanglement (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)
75% match

What Is Zoopoetics?: Texts, Bodies, Entanglement (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)

MACMILLAN

£92.82 20 Oct 2026
Many Layers of Ecocentrism: Revering Life, Revering the Earth
74% match

Many Layers of Ecocentrism: Revering Life, Revering the Earth

£41.99 26 Oct 2026
Birds and Habitat: Relationships in Changing Landscapes (Ecological Reviews)
74% match

Birds and Habitat: Relationships in Changing Landscapes (Ecological Reviews)

Cambridge University Press

£72.03 22 Oct 2026
Transnational Interconnections of Nature Studies and the Environmental Humanities
74% match

Transnational Interconnections of Nature Studies and the Environmental Humanities

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

£69.66 22 Oct 2026
Ecology and Literatures in English: Writing to Save the Planet
74% match

Ecology and Literatures in English: Writing to Save the Planet

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

£45.99 27 Oct 2026
Avian Genomics in Ecology and Evolution: From the Lab into the Wild
74% match

Avian Genomics in Ecology and Evolution: From the Lab into the Wild

Springer

£117.57 24 Oct 2026
Current Ornithology: 14
74% match

Current Ornithology: 14

Springer

£160.47 24 Oct 2026
Literature and the Anthropocene (Literature and Contemporary Thought)
73% match

Literature and the Anthropocene (Literature and Contemporary Thought)

Routledge

£40.99 21 Oct 2026
Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader (Routledge Literature Readers)
73% match

Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader (Routledge Literature Readers)

Routledge

£42.99 20 Oct 2026
Other Animals in Twenty-First Century Fiction (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)
73% match

Other Animals in Twenty-First Century Fiction (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)

MACMILLAN

£68.52 23 Oct 2026
Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro (Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism)
73% match

Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro (Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism)

MACMILLAN

£60.67 23 Oct 2026
Life Writing in the Anthropocene
73% match

Life Writing in the Anthropocene

Routledge

£38.99 01 Nov 2026
Poetic Animals and Animal Souls
73% match

Poetic Animals and Animal Souls

MACMILLAN

£39.98 23 Oct 2026
Current Ornithology: 15
73% match

Current Ornithology: 15

Springer

£144.48 03 Nov 2026
Current Ornithology: 16
73% match

Current Ornithology: 16

Springer

£82.39 20 Oct 2026
The Nature of Modernism: Ecocritical Approaches to the Poetry of Edward Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell and Charlotte Mew (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)
73% match

The Nature of Modernism: Ecocritical Approaches to the Poetry of Edward Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell and Charlotte Mew (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)

Routledge

£117.50 21 Oct 2026
Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment)
73% match

Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment)

Routledge

£155.00 22 Oct 2026
Ecological Democracy: Caring for the Earth in the Anthropocene (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies)
73% match

Ecological Democracy: Caring for the Earth in the Anthropocene (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies)

Routledge

£38.99 21 Oct 2026
Current Ornithology: Volume 11
73% match

Current Ornithology: Volume 11

Springer

£110.08 23 Oct 2026