A powerful, acclaimed evocation of grief and loss, and a celebration of the countryside, from an arresting, poetic new voice.
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is a writer of English and Kenyan heritage. She was born in Devon and her work is inspired by the landscape in which she was raised. She is the author of Swims, a Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year, and her poetry has been highly commended in the Forward Prize.
Burnett manages the delicate feat of maintaining our sense of
reverence for the nebulous Anglo-Saxon romanticism..., but twins it
with astute scientific nous which never strays into the esoteric.
She does this with such joy that we cannot help but want to join
in... a heartening read.
*The Quietus*
With a blend of poetry, memoir and a uniquely experimental, sensory
style of nature writing, The Grassling celebrates the lusciousness
of both land and language ... Ideas that might in a lesser writer
have seemed whimsical are grounded by the rich layers of Burnett's
prose.
*TLS*
A poetic, lyrical tribute to the earth beneath our feet . . .
Burnett is one of the freshest voices in the current crop of nature
writers
*Countryfile*
This astonishingly beautiful ode to the sights, sounds and smells
of the countryside . . . [evokes] a richly immersive sense of the
natural world and our place within it.
*Country Living*
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