Ahadada Books is pleased to present the I Know the Songs of all the Birds by Kelvin Corcoran. I Know the Songs of all the Birds is the fifth online chapbook available from Ahadada Books and the first of 2006. 

It leads off a great lineup that will see online chapbooks from the likes of Hugh Seidman, Simon Percik, Rane Arroyo, Dan Sargent and many more over the coming weeks!

Kelvin Corcoran came to prominence with his first book, Robin Hood in the Dark Ages in 1985. Eight subsequent collections have been enthusiastically received, and his work has been anthologized on both sides of the Atlantic. His New and Selected Poems is available from Shearsman Books.

Concurrent with the Ahadada release of I Know the Songs of all the Birds, Leafe Press will be releasing Roger Hilton's Sugar—some selections appearing in I Know the Songs of all the Birds. Moreover, the sequence “Helen Mania” (appearing herein) was made a Poetry Book Society choice in 2005.

I Know the Songs of all the Birds is available as a free download...

 I Know the Songs of all the Birds by Kelvin Corcoran (105.65 KB)

Stride Magazine writes that "Corcoran is so skilled with his line and his subject matter, he can help us wake up through his writing: he sweeps from the ancient to the contemporary and back again, often in the same short stanza... his work is linguistically complex, yet emotionally, socially, politically and, above all, poetically (musically) alive."

Praise for Kelvin Corcoran

"Kelvin Corcoran is a writer for whom politics and poetics are inseparable; his work demonstrates an exhilarating truth, that wit and irony need not exclude passion and trust in the pursuit of poetry."
    —Ken Edwards, The New British Poetry

"Corcoran emerged into view around 1985, with the piquantly entitled Robin Hood in the Dark Ages, and has produced consistently ever since - something which is true of no other individual.  It is this strength and calm which have made him a giant figure of the middle generation . . ."
    —Andrew Duncan, Poetry Salzburg