Birds of a Feather
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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Jeremy Mynott, the author of \\u2018Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience\\u2019 and \\u2018Birds in the Ancient World\\u2019, to ponder 12,000 years of human\\u2013bird relations. \\u2018How is it that, despite a historically deep-rooted veneration, we could also have predated, exploited and depleted bird populations to the point where more than one in ten species is now threatened with extinction?\\u2019; and Janet Montefiore, Chair of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society, asks whether this vivid and varied satirical novelist might finally take her place alongside Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen among the canon of accepted classics? Plus, a Life of the poet Valentine Ackland, still best known as Warner\\u2019s partner
\\u2018Flight From Grace: A cultural history of humans and birds\\u2019 by Richard Pope
\\u2018Avian Illuminations: A cultural history of birds\\u2019 by Boria Sax
\\u2018Birds and Us: A 12,000-year history: from cave art to conservation\\u2019 by Tim Birkhead
\\u2018Valentine Ackland: A transgressive life\\u2019 by Frances Bingham
\\u2018Lolly Willowes\\u2019, \\u2018Mr Fortune\\u2019s Maggot\\u2019, \\u2018 The True Heart\\u2019, \\u2018Summer Will Show\\u2019, etc, by Sylvia Townsend Warner \\u2013 for other books by Warner, find Janet Montefiore\\u2019s article at the-tls.co.uk.
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