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Steven Lovatt: BIRDSONG IN A TIME OF SILENCE W2 [2021] hardback ZLITC prompts a deeper investigation intoA lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature. "At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly: instead, like reluctantly retired officers, they're always 'on manoeuvres', and it's easy to see from their constant agitation that for them every flower bed is a bunker, every shed a redoubt and every hedge bottom a potential place of ambush" As the world went silent in lockdown, something else happened; for the