• Under the Wings of Africa

Under the Wings of Africa

October 1, 2007 | ISBN 978-1-894987-21-9 | 180 Pages | OUT OF PRINT

**Out of Print** October 2007 180 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-21-9 Under the Wings of Africa is a provocative mélange of poetry, memoir, and letters to a lover chronicling the author’s visit to South Africa in the company of his wife. Beautifully detailed descriptions of the landscape, the people, and the author’s greatest passion for bird watching are woven into a rich narrative of love and loss. In this book fact and fiction are expertly manipulated by Weier to create an aesthetic tapestry of his inner and outer worlds. Excerpt In the fall of 2001 I traveled to Africa. That much, at… Read more
  • John Weier has traveled extensively throughout South Africa, India and Europe pursuing his passion for bird watching and logging over 1,200 species of birds. Weier has published books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and for children. Lost Alcyon: Notes from an African Journey is Weier’s eleventh book. His writing has appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies and he has read widely in North America and abroad. Weier lives in Winnipeg where he works as a freelance writer and violin restorer, and owns a small chapbook press.