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Birdsong in a Time of Silence

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

129 kr

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A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature.'At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly: instead, like reluctantly retired officers, they're always "on manoeuvres", and it's easy to see from their constant agitation that for them every flower bed is a bunker, every shed a redoubt and every hedge-bottom a potential place of ambush'As the world went silent in lockdown, something else happened; for the first time, many of us started becoming more aware of the spring sounds of the birds around us. Birdsong in a Time of Silence is a lyrical, uplifting reflection on these sounds and what they mean to us.From a portrait of the blackbird - most prominent and articulate of the early spring singers - to explorations of how birds sing, the science behind their choice of song and nest-sites, and the varied meanings that people have brought to and taken from birdsong, this book ultimately shows that natural history and human history cannot be separated. It is the story of a collective reawakening brought on by the strangest of springs.

Enchanted Ground

Growing Roots in a Broken World

AvSteven Lovatt

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

155 kr

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A moving, powerful quest for belonging through the forsaken landscapes of BritainWhen Steven Lovatt’s grandmother died, he lost not only a beloved family member but also his last link to the way of life she had represented: rooted in place, socially democratic, ecologically rich. Cut loose from the past and confronted with a present missing even the birds of his childhood, Steven’s mind cracked.Drawing on field work, local library archives and oral history, as well as dreams, diaries and visions, Enchanted Ground charts a fractured course from breakdown to belonging. For if he is to survive, Steven realises he must set out, like a pilgrim, across the motorways and monoculture wastes of Britain in search of enchanted ground – and those who have begun to rebuild it.

Enchanted Ground

Growing Roots in a Broken World

AvSteven Lovatt

E-bok

Engelska, 2025

122 kr

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A moving, powerful quest for belonging through the forsaken landscapes of BritainWhen Steven Lovatt’s grandmother died, he lost not only a beloved family member but also his last link to the way of life she had represented: rooted in place, socially democratic, ecologically rich. Cut loose from the past and confronted with a present missing even the birds of his childhood, Steven’s mind cracked.Drawing on field work, local library archives and oral history, as well as dreams, diaries and visions, Enchanted Ground charts a fractured course from breakdown to belonging. For if he is to survive, Steven realises he must set out, like a pilgrim, across the motorways and monoculture wastes of Britain in search of enchanted ground – and those who have begun to rebuild it.

Birdsong in a Time of Silence

AvSteven Lovatt

E-bok

Engelska, 2021

105 kr

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A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature.'At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly: instead, like reluctantly retired officers, they're always "on manoeuvres", and it's easy to see from their constant agitation that for them every flower bed is a bunker, every shed a redoubt and every hedge-bottom a potential place of ambush'As the world went silent in lockdown, something else happened; for the first time, many of us started becoming more aware of the spring sounds of the birds around us. Birdsong in a Time of Silence is a lyrical, uplifting reflection on these sounds and what they mean to us.From a portrait of the blackbird - most prominent and articulate of the early spring singers - to explorations of how birds sing, the science behind their choice of song and nest-sites, and the varied meanings that people have brought to and taken from birdsong, this book ultimately shows that natural history and human history cannot be separated. It is the story of a collective reawakening brought on by the strangest of springs.

Enchanted Ground

Growing Roots in a Broken World

AvSteven Lovatt

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

226 kr

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A quest for belonging through the forsaken landscapes of BritainWhen Steven Lovatt’s grandmother died, he lost not only a beloved family member but also his last link to the way of life she had represented: rooted in place, socially democratic, ecologically rich. Cut loose from the past and confronted with a present missing even the birds of his childhood, Steven’s mind cracked.Drawing on field work, local library archives and oral history, as well as dreams, diaries and visions, Enchanted Ground charts a fractured course from breakdown to belonging. For if he is to survive, Steven realises he must set out, like a pilgrim, across the motorways and monoculture wastes of Britain in search of enchanted ground – and those who have begun to rebuild it.

Open Door

AvParthian Books,Steven Lovatt

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

118 kr

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The history of Wales as a destination and confection of English Romanticwriters is well-known, but this book reverses the process, turning a Welshgaze on the rest of the world.

New Welsh Reader 128

Fathers and Daughters

AvYvonne Reddick,Steven Lovattm. fl.

E-bok

Engelska, 2021

98 kr

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This edition/anthology focuses on photography, commemoration and reinvention, with particular attention paid to the memories that pass from father to daughter. Photographer MR Thomas writes about the October 1999 day that he shot the iconic group portrait of cultural legends RS Thomas, Kyffin Williams and Emyr Humphreys, at RS Thomas'' home in Pentrefelin, in Gwynedd. MR Thomas recreated the pose and attitude of an historical and historic photograph in the public domain that has come to be known as The Penyberth Three (of Lewis Valentine, Saunders Lewis and DJ Williams, the founders of the Welsh nationalist movement), transforming it into a new artefact, The Pentrefelin Three, which is published for the first time in these pages.

Yvonne Reddick drew on memories of the loss of her father in the mountains, in her debut poetry pamphlet, Translating Mountains. In her memoir published here, illustrated by her partner Jonny Kinnear''s atmospheric black and white photographs, she further probes that loss. More than that, she pitches it into the public global arena by setting her true story on the Instagram mecca of the crash site of the Bleaklow Bomber in the Peak District, where the US reconnaissance plane ''Over Exposed'' crashed in 1948, having previously photographed images of the nuclear blasts on Bikini Atoll. Meanwhile, exploring the father-daughter legacy in relation to the growth of rural rave culture in 1990s mid Wales, ''Bass in the Blood'' by Jodie Bond recounts how she and her brother weathered parties marked by drugs, music, natural beauty and benign neglect, leaving her with magical and yet conflicted memories of her father''s rediscovery of himself, post divorce.

New Welsh Reader 130

Restored Memory

AvSteven Lovatt,Hilary Menosm. fl.

E-bok

Engelska, 2022

65 kr

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Illuminated by Anthony Arrowsmith''s beautiful photography of the Loughor estuary, this anthology of prose on the theme of ''restored memory'' and showcasing writing of place and blended nonfiction, features Angela Evans, in the second of her series celebrating the Wales Coast Path. Here, she uncovers the landscape''s secret stories: a skeleton coast, Bonaparte''s niece and Amelia Earhart''s emergency landing. Meanwhile, we present five of the prose writers who rose to the top of the spring''s New Welsh Writing Awards: Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting. These are two nonfiction writers who combine place with memoir and focus on restored and distorted memory. One is Tim Cooke, this year''s Awardswinner, whose ''River'' (featured in The Bookseller) uses Ogmore River edgelands as a setting for poignant themes of lost children and ''dark play''. The other is the young woman who scooped our category for 18-25 year olds, as well as being placed second in our competition, Hattie Morrison. Her ''Venus as a Spinster'' takes an experimental approach, combining an elliptical approach to recovering her own memories of living in a former wool-industry community with a documentary approach to what she sees as the erasure of women from the history of that industry. In fiction, we present ''Taxi'', a preview from the Costa-winning poet Jonathan Edwards'' satirical short-fiction collection, ValleysWorld. This hyper-empathetic story of two men in a Newport cab creates a private imagined moment in what became a public tragedy of rock history. Plus we showcase two fiction newcomers, Eleanor Williams and Rae Leaver, and continue, in travel writing, with Steven Lovatt''s prescient series on Hungarian culture, mores and habitats, ''Haunted Landscape''. Finally, we have a bumper crop of eleven poets, including the marvellous Hilary Menos, and preview poems from autumn collections due out with Seren and Parthian, by Julia Bell, Bryony Littlefair, Mari Ellis Dunning and Rhiannon Hooson.

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