A Savannah sparrow. The songs of sparrows living on Kent Island, in New Brunswick’s Bay of Fundy, are noticeably different from the tunes their ancestors sang in the 1980s.

I have never found a song sparrow nest, but assume they are nesting somewhere nearby, or that male wouldn’t be singing from the top of my quince bush every morning. They mostly nest on the ...

Song of the Sparrow is a daring, heartbreaking and provocative memoir of a life filled with music, told with the same raw, open and elegant poetry that Tara's fans have come to expect.