Birds, photography and road trips. Bug eaten rats, the falling leaves of a gingko tree, and a blue heron in flight. Red Bird, Ian Roy's debut collection of poetry, takes on the everyday with a keen eye, breathtaking imagery and a sense of the beauty in the superficially ugly debris of our lives. Red Bird is filled with crushing poems about love and death, birds and cars. You will find in these poems those moments of complex and simple beauty found in the everyday devastation of the natural world. These poems are about the life all around us: the life that exists around the corner, and the life we are living here and now.