Helps you to learn Spanish through crossword puzzles. This title offers you an effective way of expanding your knowledge of the Spanish language and culture. It features the crucigramas that cover a variety of topics that which challenge and help you develop your Spanish-language skills.
Glowflake, Rocket, Small Skies, Kind Spears, Marilyn . . . Moss is known as the living carpet but if you look really closely, it contains an irrepressible light. In Twelve Words for Moss, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett highlights this often forgotten but vital foundation of the plant world with her unique blend of poetry, nature writing and memoir. Making her way through wetlands from Somerset to Country Tyrone, Burnett discovers the hidden vibrancy of these overlooked spaces, renaming her favourite species of moss as she recovers from grieving her father's death, spurred on by the resilience and tenacity of her plant - and human - friends.
What fills my lungs is wider than breath could be. It is a place and a language torn, matted and melded; flowered and chiming with bones. That breath is that place and until I get there I will not really be breathing.Spurred on by her father's declining health and inspired by the history he once wrote of his small Devon village, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett delves through layers of memory, language and natural history to tell a powerful story of how the land shapes us and speaks to us. The Grassling is a book about roots: what it means to belong when the soil beneath our feet is constantly shifting, when the people and places that nurtured us are slipping away.
The Gift, the Wager, and Poethics
Examining the theories of Marcell Mauss and Lewis Hyde, this book delves into the concept of poetry as a form of gift exchange. It focuses on how poetic interactions shape relationships and cultural dynamics, particularly in the context of the 20th century. By analyzing various poetic works and their social implications, the author provides fresh insights into the transformative power of poetry and its role in fostering community and connection among individuals.
A remarkable new book in praise of marine fauna. Of Sea takes the form of a poetic bestiary of creatures living beneath, beside and above the water: in wetlands, salt marshes and the intertidal zone.
An evocative debut poetry collection documenting wild swimming in lakes, rivers and seas across the UK.