_Thirteen Ways to Look at Bird_s brings six musicians from broad-ranging backgrounds 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.

It features the Seraphim Trio with Anna Goldsworthy on piano, Helen Ayres on violin and Tim Nankervis on cello, along with composer James Ledger and singer-songwriters Paul Kelly and Alice Keath. The latter sings harmony and background vocals on The Darkling Thrush, Leda and the Swan, A Barred Owl, Ode to a Nightingale, Thornbills, The Windhover and The Magpies and the lead vocal on Proud Songsters.