Where Calling Birds Gather is a poetic journey spanning continents. From the Canadian Prairies we are wisked away to Australia and Ethiopia in search of exotic birds. Like the migrational patterns of the narrator’s quarry, the poems crisscross and overlap, they are pulled across the land as they search for new tastes, smells, lives and loves. And as the hyena’s cackle in the night and the Cassowary’s peck at the side of the road, the memory of the open prairie calls. When the reader finally “tacks” for home they only have to wait until the next migration.