Twelve Words for Moss
Penguin UK · Paperback · October 1, 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024 Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2023 for Nature Writing 'Exquisite, luminous and quietly radical . . . utterly unique and refreshing' Lucy Jones Where nothing grows, moss is the spark that triggers new life.
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- Who it’s for
- A reflective braid of natural history, memoir and evocative prose finds fresh language for moss.
- Themes
- Moss and natural history, Landscape, memory and recovery, Place, people and language
- Pacing
- Reflective
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024 Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2023 for Nature Writing 'Exquisite, luminous and quietly radical . . . utterly unique and refreshing' Lucy Jones Where nothing grows, moss is the spark that triggers new life.
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Embarking on a journey though landscape, memory and recovery, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett explores this mysterious, ancient marvel of the plant world, meditating on and renaming her favourite mosses – from Glowflake to Little Loss – and drawing inspiration from place, people and language itself. 'Fascinating, subtle and risk-taking . . . Poetry, descriptive-evocative prose, memory, memoir, natural history and more all drift and mingle in strikingly new ways' Robert Macfarlane
Moss, Memory, Language
A reflective braid of natural history, memoir and evocative prose finds fresh language for moss.
Come here for
- A close look at moss as a catalyst for new life
- Nature writing that follows memory, place and language
Expect
- Poetry and descriptive prose mingling with natural history
- A quietly exploratory journey through landscape and recovery
Where it sits
| Nature Writing | 50% |
|---|---|
| Poetry | 40% |
| Personal Memoirs | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- Plants
- Nature Poetry
- Authors
- Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Published
- October 1, 2024
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Moss and natural history · Landscape, memory and recovery · Place, people and language
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs