'A generous book, offering the small stories - of childhood,
family, place, of growth and falling away and regrowth - that
enable the big connections with the flow of the world.' - Mark
Goldthorpe, Climate Cultures 'A meander through the seasons that is
filled with lyrical gifts and new ways of seeing the world. This is
new nature writing - as diverse, original and ceaselessly
surprising as the wild world it celebrates.' Patrick Barkham,
Natural History correspondent for The Guardian and author of
Islander, Badgerlands, The Butterfly Isles and Wild Child: Coming
Home to Nature. 'A wonderfully diverse collection of poetry and
long-form prose, celebrating the four seasons of the year in a
fresh and ultimately life-affirming way.' Stephen Moss 'These
essays urgently reimagine what nature writing can be-and whose
stories belong in that canon. Gifts of Gravity and Light is
generous, unsentimental, and bursting with talented voices that
will shape this genre for decades to come.' Jessica J. Lee, author
of Two Trees Make a Forest and Turning, and editor of The
Willowherb Review *** 'I learned something new from each enjoyable
essay and by the end realised that nature is integral to how we
live on this planet, not a subsidiary to life, but at the heart of
it.' - Bernardine Evaristo The changing seasons of the year are an
endless source of strangeness and wonder. Gifts of Gravity and
Light invites you to experience Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter
through fourteen different voices. Greet the arrival of spring in
East London with a Cambodian new year's dance; watch sea otters at
play in the summer sun; gather armfuls of hops in a Romany song to
the autumn; yield to the icy stillness of winter in the Cairngorms
or pine for 'sun drunk' days of a Jamaican childhood. With a
foreword by Bernardine Evaristo and contributions from Jackie Kay,
Kaliane Bradley, Pippa Marland, Testament, Michael Malay, Tishani
Doshi, Jay Griffiths, Luke Turner, Anita Roy, Raine Geoghegan,
Zakiya McKenzie, Alys Fowler, Amanda Thomson and Simon Armitage,
this almanac reflects not only the diversity of the writers
featured, but the endlessly changing natural world itself.
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