AustLit

'Birds have featured regularly in Peter Lyssiotis’ work – The Bird, The Belltower; Birds from Byzantium and now, Ah, Those Thieving Birds! Lyssiotis uses the prose poem, which reached its heights in France between the Wars, because it allows him to move slyly between both the real and the surreal. Although the poems are set in a familiar domestic setting, the inevitable unexpected insight or the slightest twist of the narrative give the work wings with which to fly beyond the everyday. Toula Nicolacopoulos has written the Introduction to this chapbook.' (Publication summary)