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’