Hauntingly beautiful Anthropocene fable from the bestselling author of Underland and The Lost Words
Robert Macfarlane's Sunday Times- and New York Times-bestselling
books include Is a River Alive?, 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, albums, choral works, and films
including River and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe.
Macfarlane has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur
Eliasson, 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. In 2017, the American Academy of
Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature,
and in 2023 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 presently
working on a graphic novel re-telling of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Macfarlane and Morris's latest project, The Book of Birds, will be
published in May 2026.
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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