Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds

Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds is a studio album by Australian musicians Paul Kelly, and James Ledger featuring Alice Keath and Seraphim Trio. The album was released on 30 August 2019 and peaked at number 43 on the ARIA Charts.

The album brings six musicians 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. The CD contains 16 tracks, but three are instrumentals not based on any poem: "Mudlarking", "Murmuration" and "Black Swan". The vinyl version contains an extra track, "Eurydice And The Tawny Frogmouth", positioned between "The Fly" and "Black Swan".

Though the song cycle is named in allusion to the Wallace Stevens poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", that particular poem is not one of the works adapted for this album.

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, the album won Best Classical Album.

Track listing
For all songs, music by Paul Kelly and James Ledger

Extra track on LP version: