Life With Birds: a suburban lyric

A luminous account of largely unrecognised experiences in the aftermath of war.

This is not a war story about heroism or healing trauma, but an attempt to fill the gaps in a family story in the wake of the Vietnam War and re-animate a father never really known.

Life with Birds invests in the small scale, the domestic and the ordinary as an overlooked part of Australian military history.

Bronwyn Rennex has used whatever materials she could find in order to attempt to retrieve her father -...