Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s book ‘Twelve Words for Moss’ is not exactly a scientific book, although it contains a lot of botanical information. It’s more a series of meditations on moss and (trying to delay too-glib a rhyme) loss, specifically the loss of her father. Both nature writing and grief memoir, it is also interspersed with Burnett’s … Continue reading ’an ancient, woven, wet, ditch-dance’
Tag: Louise Gluck
‘Come singly, one by one’
The choice of Louise Gluck for the Nobel Prize was unexpected, but immediately felt right, to me at least. I find her poems haunting, like lucid dreams, particularly in ‘Faithful and Virtuous Night’ (2014). The New York Review of Books featured her Nobel lecture (undelivered because of Covid) ‘The Poet and the Reader’. She writes … Continue reading ‘Come singly, one by one’

