Eerie,unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of Holloway,Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood.
Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island,inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel,a figure called The Armourer is leading a ritual with terrible intent. But something is coming to stop him.
Five more-than-human forms are traversing land,sea and time towards The Green Chapel,moving to the point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness has lichen skin and willow-bones. Ness is made of tidal drift,green moss and deep time. Ness has hagstones for eyes and speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back.
What happens when land comes to life What would it take for land to need to come to life
Using word and image,the pair have together made a minor modern myth. Part-novella,part-prose-poem,part-mystery play,in Ness their skills combine to dazzling,troubling effect.
Robert Macfarlane is the author of The Lost Words with Jackie Morris,The Old Ways and Underland. Stanley Donwood is an artist and the author of Slowly Downward, Household Worms and Bad Island.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241986370Number of pages: 96Weight: 92 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 7 mm
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'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
Robert Macfarlane
A British author and academic,Robert Macfarlane is an author of prize-winning books on the themes of memory,landscape,nature,environmentalism and travel and regularly writes for publications including the Guardian and the Times. His first book,Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His other works include,The Old Ways,Landmarks and The Lost Words,a children's book of nature spells created in partnership with artist Jackie Morris.
Robert Macfarlane is Reader in Literature and the Geohumanities in the Faculty of English at Emmanuel College,Cambridge. His forthcoming book about subterranean spaces and deep time,Underland,will be published in 2019.
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