The Learned Goose Mark Hinchliffe Gunter Grass

Gunter Grass

Winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize and other awards

between Irish parents and their German grandchildren

Berlie Doherty

The Learned Goose Mark Hinchliffe Gunter GrassThe Learned Goose is a collection preoccupied with storytelling and the search for answers, often in surprising and ill considered places. The learned goose was a genuine 18th century touring sensation: a goose that could predict the future, tell time and read you like a book. The learned goose is oxymoronic in nature; geese are considered silly creatures, regulars in fairytales and rich pickings for derogatory idioms and expressions, and yet here we