Twelve words for moss /
by Burnett, Elizabeth-Jane.
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BookPublisher: UK : Allen Lane, 2023Description: v, 178 pages ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780241556832 (pbk.) :; 024155683X (pbk.) :.Classification number: 828.9209 BURSubject(s): Burnett, Elizabeth-Jane | Grief | Literature | Literature | United Kingdom, Great Britain | Ireland | Memoirs | Poetry | Poetry by individual poetsSummary: 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 celebrates the unsung hero 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 her grief at her father's death and draws inspiration from the resilience and tenacity of her plant - and human - friends.
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| 828.9208 BEA It's a don's life | 828.9208 PHI The Virgin Mary's got nits: a Christmas anthology | 828.9209 An encyclopaedia of myself | 828.9209 BUR Twelve words for moss / | 828.9209 COX Notebook / | 828.9209 DAV Happy old me : | 828.9209 DAV Letters to Margaret : confessions to my late wife / |
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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 celebrates the unsung hero 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 her grief at her father's death and draws inspiration from the resilience and tenacity of her plant - and human - friends.
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