Marjolein van der Loo - With a Bird, A Reader on Avian Kinship

With a Bird, is number 262 in Onomatopee's catalogue and the second volume in the Eindhoven publisher's five-part series on folklore and critical research, following A Tree. Edited by Marjolein van der Loo, it gathers writing and visual work on how people live and think alongside birds, treating them as kin rather than as symbols.

The contributions move between speculative fiction, personal essay, visual art, ancestral memory and ornithology, with each chapter devoted to a role birds play in human life, from death and dreams to freedom and fortune-telling. Alongside new work, the reader reprints earlier texts by John Berger (The White Bird, 1985) and Daisy Hildyard (The Second Body, 2017).

Contributors include John Berger, Ignace Cami, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Monika Czyżyk, Bryony Dunne and Suzanne Walsh, Daniel Godínez Nivón, Daisy Hildyard, Manjot Kaur, Natalie Lawrence, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Karan J. Odom, Ai Ozaki, Maria Popova, Sergio Rojas Chaves, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing and Yuri Tuma.

Onomatopee, 2025. Softcover, 11 × 17 cm, 288 pages, English.