Books for Nature Lovers
By Seren
Books for Nature Lovers
By Seren
Wild Places UK
Iolo Williams
£19.99 £18.99Iolo Williams' lavishly illustrated guide to his top 40 sites in the UK takes you from Hermaness on Shetland to the London Wetland Centre, from Dungeness in Kent to Loch Neagh.
The Owl House
Daniel Butler
£12.99 £12.34Daniel Butler charts his relationship with two barn owls which nested in the barn of his rural mid-Wales home. In this pastoral exploration of his locale, rich in wildlife of all kinds, he roams the mountains and forests, takes trips to the coast, encounters all manner of animals and birds, and grows to understand the relationship between the local people and their surroundings.
Waterfalls of Stars
Rosanne Alexander
£12.99 £12.34When Rosanne Alexander’s boyfriend Mike was offered the job of warden of Skomer Island, they had just ten days to leave college, marry (a condition of employment) and gather their belongings and provisions. Rosanne's lyrical evocation of the natural world will inspire and entertain anyone who has felt the need for escape.
The Living Wells of Wales
Phil Cope
£20.00 £19.00Phil Cope takes us on a journey through the sacred wells of Wales, from Anglesey to Gwent. On his way he discovers wells in city centres and, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere – on mountainsides, in deserted valleys, on the coast, in sea caves. They include healing wells, cursing wells, and wells named for saints, Satan, witches, angels, fairies, friars, nuns, hermits, murderers and hangmen. Cope’s atmospheric photographs are accompanied by folk tales, myths and legends, conversations with well-keepers and poems inspired by Welsh wells.
Once
Andrew McNeillie
£9.99 £9.49Once is the journey from boyhood to the threshold of manhood of poet Andrew McNeillie. Ordinary daily life and education in Llandudno shortly after the war are set against an extraordinary life lived close to nature in some of the wilder parts of Snowdonia. Once is a beautifully written eulogy for a retreating countryside now valued more for its leisure potential than as a repository of nature and source of human fullfilment. The narrative is underlain by a way of thinking informed by the natural world and by nature poetry, and is an evocative and memorable book about the nature of experience of memory and writing.
Holy Wells: Scotland: Scotland
Phil Cope
£25.00 £23.75Author and photographer Phil Cope, takes his camera on a journey through the sacred wells of Scotland from the Borders to the Orkney Islands.
Holy Wells: Cornwall
Phil Cope
£20.00 £19.00Sacred wells have played an important part in the culture and landscape of Cornwall for several millennia, and continue to do so. Holy Wells: Cornwall is a collection of beautiful colour photographs of forty-five of the most important and pre-eminent wells in the county, accompanied by an informative text about the history and legends associated with them, and a number of poems celebrating them by Robert Southey, Arthur Quiller Couch and others by author and photographer Phil Cope.
Batu-Angas: Envisioning Nature with Alfred Russel Wallace
Anne Cluysenaar
£8.99 £8.54Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), one of the most famous scientists of the 19th century and best known today as the co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution, is the inspiration for this beautiful sequence of poems by Anne Cluysenaar.
Fauverie
Pascale Petit
£9.99 £9.49Acclaimed poet Pascale Petit's Fauverie has childhood trauma and a dying father at its heart, while Paris takes centre stage – a city savage as the Amazon, haunted by Aramis the black jaguar and a menagerie of wild animals. Transforming childhood horrors to ultimately mourn a lost parent, Fauverie redeems the darker forces of human nature while celebrating the ferocity and grace of endangered species. Shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize 2014.
Basic Nest Architecture
Polly Atkin
£9.99 £9.49Polly Atkin's profoundly personal debut collection, often inspired by the beauties of the Lake District, reaches out to the modern world in all it’s complexity and diversity.
Borderlands
Phil Cope
£19.99 £18.99Phil Cope journeys up and down the borderlands between Wales and England, and through history from pre-Christian times through Roman and early Christian times, the medieval Age of the Princes in Wales and on to Victorian and the contemporary period exploring the sacred wells which litter the landscape. Richly illustrated in colour throughout the wells from Cheshire to Monmouthshire, from the Dee to the Severn are here displayed in all their glory, be they in remote countryside or city centre.
100 Poems to Save the Earth
£12.99 £12.34
Our climate is on the brink of catastrophic change. This landmark anthology presents a positive and determined impulse to change for the better the way we interact with the environment. 100 Poems to Save the Earth reveals the defining crisis of our time to be fundamentally a crisis of perception. For too long, the earth has been exploited. With its incisive Foreword, this anthology is a call to action to fight the threat facing the only planet we have. Featuring a selection of renowned contemporary poets from Britain, Ireland, America and beyond, these poems invite us to fine-tune our senses, to listen to the world around us, pay attention to what we have been missing, to remember the forgotten. From rural and urban perspectives, linking issues of social injustice with the need to protect the environment, these poems attend carefully to the new evidence, redraw the maps and, full of trust, keep going, proving that in fact, poetry is exactly what we need to save the earth.