A year of looking, listening and noticing across four unique seasons and thirty-five beautifully illustrated poems.
The world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, then quickly and irreversibly, the patterns by which we once lived altered completely.
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.
| ISBN: | 9781783965977 |
| Publication date: | 17th June 2021 |
| Author: | Rob Cowen, Nick Hayes |
| Publisher: | Elliott & Thompson Limited |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Primary Genre | Poetry |
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