Twelve Words for Moss

''Exquisite, luminous and quietly radical . . . utterly unique and refreshing'' Lucy Jones

Where nothing grows, moss is the spark that triggers new life. Embarking on a journey though landscape, memory and recovery, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett explores this mysterious, ancient marvel of the plant world, meditating on and renaming her favourite mosses - from Glowflake to Little Loss - and drawing inspiration from place, people and language itself.
''Fascinating, subtle and risk-taking . . . Poetry, descriptive-evocative prose, memory, memoir, natural history and more all drift and mingle in strikingly new ways'' Robert Macfarlane<>

About the author

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is a poet whose work explores environmental issues through creative writing. She is the author of The Grassling, an exploration of memory and natural history, as well as Twelve Words for Moss, which was shortlisted for the 2023 Wainwright Prize.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Burnett Elizabeth-Jane
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.05.2024
• EAN: 9780141999548
• ISBN: 978-0-14-199954-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, NATURE / Ecology, SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement, Poetry, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / General, Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Coping with death & bereavement, Ireland, Rural communities, Applied ecology, Environmentalist thought & ideology, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Poetry by individual poets, British Isles, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Ferns, mosses and liverworts, Wetlands, Swamps, Fens, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature