Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds

Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds is a studio album by Australian musicians Paul Kelly, and James Ledger featuring Alice Keath and Seraphim Trio . The album was released on 30 August 2019 and peaked at number 43 on the ARIA Charts.

Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds
Studio album by Paul Kelly and James Ledger
Released	30 August 2019
Label	EMI Music Australia
Paul Kelly studio chronology
Live at the Sydney Opera House (2019) Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds (2019) Songs from the South: 1985–2019 (2019)

The albums brings six musicians together to interpret bird inspired poems, written by John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Judith Wright, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gwen Harwood, A D Hope and others.[1]

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, the album won ARIA Award for Best Classical Album.[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Black Cockatoos"	2:59
2.	"The Darkling Thrush"	3:35
3.	"Leda and the Swan"	5:01
4.	"Barn Owl"	3:14
5.	"Mudlarking"	2:43
6.	"A Barred Owl"	4:19
7.	""Hope" Is the Thing With Feathers"	3:55
8.	"Ode To a Nightingale"	8:03
9.	"Proud Songsters"	1:52
10.	"Murmuration"	3:59
11.	"Thornbills"	3:03
12.	"The Fly"	3:23
13.	"Black Swan"	2:55
14.	"The Death of the Bird"	4:54
15.	"The Windhover"	4:27
16.	"The Magpies"	2:56

Charts

Chart (2019)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[3]	43

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label	Catalogue
Australia	30 August 2019[1]	CD, DD	Decca Australia	GAWD028S

References

1. "Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds (CD)". JB Hi-Fi. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
2. "ARIA Awards 2019: Tones and I wins big & Human Nature Hall of Fame". MediaWeek. 27 November 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
3. "Australiancharts.com – Paul Kelly – Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds". Hung Medien. Retrieved 19 August 2017.