Hauntingly beautiful Anthropocene fable from the bestselling author of Underland and The Lost Words
Robert Macfarlane (Author)
Robert Macfarlane is internationally renowned for his writing on
nature, people and place. His bestselling books include Underland,
Landmarks, The Old Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind,
as well as a book-length prose-poem, Ness. His work has been
translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the
world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and
dance. He has also written operas, plays, and films including River
and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe. He has collaborated
closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson and Stanley Donwood,
and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally
bestselling books of nature-poetry and art, The Lost Words and The
Lost Spells. As a lyricist and performer, he has written albums and
songs with musicians including Cosmo Sheldrake, Karine Polwart and
Johnny Flynn, with whom he has released two albums, Lost In The
Cedar Wood (2021) and The Moon Also Rises (2023). In 2017, the
American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster
Prize for Literature, and in 2022 in Toronto he was the inaugural
winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the
field of non-fiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, and is currently completing his third book with Jackie
Morris- The Lost Birds.
Stanley Donwood (Author)
Stanley Donwood is a graphic designer, artist and writer. He has
worked with the British band Radiohead since 1994, producing the
artwork for all their albums and promotional materials. He is also
the author of numerous books including Catacombs of Terror!, Slowly
Downward and Small Thoughts. His collaboration with Robert
Macfarlane, Ness, will be published in November 2019.
Ness goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry, beyond
the word, beyond the bomb - it is an aftertime song. It is dark,
ever so dark, nimble and lethal. It is a triumphant libretto of
mythic modernism for our poisoned age. Ness is something else, and
feels like it always has been.
*Max Porter*
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