The Heeding paints a picture of a year caught in the grip of history, yet filled with revelatory perspectives close at hand: a sparrowhawk hunting in a back street; the moon over a town with a loved-one's hand held tight; butterflies massing in a high-summer yard - the everyday wonders and memories that shape a life and help us recall our own. Across four seasons and thirty-five luminous poems and illustrations, Rob Cowen and Nick Hayes lead us on a journey that takes its markers and signs from nature and a world filled with fear and pain but beauty and wonder too. Collecting birds, animals, trees and people together, The Heeding is a profound meditation to a time no-one will forget.
At its heart, this is a book that helps us look again, to heed: to be attentive to this world we share and this history we're living through, to be aware of how valuable and fragile we are, to grieve what's lost and to hope for a better and brighter tomorrow.
Author(s): Cowen, Rob, Hayes, Nick,
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 17/06/2021,
Pagination: 112 pages, Illustrations, black and white,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Elliott & Thompson Limited,
Published By: Elliott & Thompson Limited,
Book Classification: Literature & literary studies,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781783965977