Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons by Melissa Harrison Paperback Book

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A beautiful collection that captures the unfolding of winter

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Winter is a withdrawal: quiet and dark and cold. But in the dim light frost shimmers, stars twinkle and hearths blaze as we come together to keep out the chill. In spite of the season, life persists: visiting birds fill our skies, familiar creatures find clever ways to survive, and the world reveals winter riches to those willing to venture outdoors.In prose and poetry spanning seven hundred years, Winter delights in the brisk pleasures and enduring beauty of the year's turning. Featuring new writing from Patrick Barkham, Satish Kumar and Anita Sethi, extracts from the work of Robert Macfarlane, James Joyce and Kathleen Jamie, and a range of exciting new voices from across the UK, this invigorating collection evokes the joys and the consolations of this magical time of year.

Notes

An anthology for the changing seasons, as part of a series each released with the changing seasons to celebrate the unfolding of winter.

Author Biography

Melissa Harrison is a writer and nature lover whose first novel Clay (2013) won the Portsmouth First Fiction prize, was selected for Amazon's 'Rising Stars' programme and named by Ali Smith as a book of the year. Her second, At Hawthorn Time (2015), was shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award and chosen by the Telegraph as one of their Books of the Year; both books are as much about the natural world as they are about people. She writes the Nature Notebook in The Times and regularly speaks about conservation, literature, and the very fertile ground between the two.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; Introduction by Melissa Harrison vii; Roger Deakin 1; Hartley Coleridge 4; Annie Worsley 5; Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9; Lucy Jones 11; Edward Step 13; Caroline Greville 15; Thomas Furly Forster 18; Jen Hadfield 19; Charles Dickens 21; Reverend Gilbert White 23; Nicholas Breton 25; Elizabeth Gardiner 26; William Shakespeare 29; John Fowles 30; Chris Foster 31; Richard Jefferies 34; Kate Blincoe 38; Kristian Evans 40; Andrea Levy 42; Anon. 44; Satish Kumar 46; Thomas Furly Forster 51; Nicola Chester 52; Julian Beach 55; Christina McLeish 58; Joseph Addison 61; Patrick Barkham 63; Ronald Blythe 67; Nick Acheson 69; Louis MacNeice 71; Jini Reddy 72; Thomas Furly Forster 75; Liz Berry 76; Henry Tegner 79; Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion 83; Nakul Krishna 84; Adrian Bell 88; Al Alvarez 91; R. S. Thomas 93; Reverend Gilbert White 94; Richard Adams 95; Mary Leapor 97; Matt Gaw 99; Virginia Woolf 101; Iain Green 104; Thomas Furly Forster 108; Jacqueline Bain 109; Anna Laetitia Barbauld 113; Jane Adams 114; Jack Clemo 117; Elizabeth Guntrip 118; Sir Edward Grey 121; Henry Williamson 123; David North 126; James Joyce 130; Emma Kemp 132; William Wordsworth 134; Robert Macfarlane 137; Brian Carter 141; Janet Willoner 145; John Clare 148; Sheila Stewart 149; Sophie Bagshaw 154; Dr Rob Lambert 157; Robert Louis Stevenson 161; Jon Dunn 163; Reverend Gilbert White 167; Thomas Hardy 168; Lucy McRobert 170; Thomas Furly Forster 172; Clare Leighton 173; Tiffany Francis 177; Bethany Pope 180; Claire Thurlow 182; Edward Step 186; Ann MacCarthy 187; Olaudah Equiano 191; Matt Poacher 192; Edmond Holmes 195; Anita Sethi 196; Kathleen Jamie 202; Author Biographies 204

Review

"A carefully selected compilation of undeniably gripping extracts and specially commissioned pieces ... the final book in a fantastic series designed to celebrate the seasons"-LandLove magazine; "Be inspired on a winter walk by writers who adore the frosty season" - Country Walking magazine; "Compelling reading ... what is original about this collection is not just the diversity of relatively unknown talent on show, but the quality of the work" - Tom Mooney, Wexford Echo; "To open its covers is to open onto a landscape which you have not yet crossed and to feel yourself beckoned in. It might be an intellectual landscape - littered with strange formations of thought-rocks you have never encountered. It might be an emotional landscape - bathed in the colour of an unfamiliar sky. It might even be a spiritual one, animated by the sound of an unheard yet strangely familiar melody. ... This book will take you from mountain heights to urban jungle, and from the back of a cow shed to the slippery deck of an 18th Century sailing ship. ... If you want a book to help reduce your heating bills this Winter, this could be it. The cosy effect of curling up with it will work wonders." -- Richard Littledale, blogger; "Packed with good writing ... a good mixture of familiar and unfamiliar" - Mark Avery; "Just adorable... it's the most beautiful writing. Makes you feel in keeping with the seasons" - Karen Gimson, BBC Radio Leicester; "Alive and vibrant, both in the imagery it evokes and in the feelings it arouses. Without doubt Winter, that most enigmatic of seasons, comes gloriously alive in this lovely anthology. The editor, Melissa Harrison, has done a commendable job of keeping this quartet of anthologies completely relevant, with each seasonal interpretation allowing a heartening and thoughtful meditation into the true meaning of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter" - jaffareadstoo.blogspot.co.uk

Promotional

*Both the ideal gift and a collectible set, with the full series released throughout 2016 to coincide with the changing seasons, in February, May, August and November.; *Edited by Melissa Harrison, a rising star in both fiction and non-fiction nature writing.; *Includes well known-names alongside new voices - publicity will focus on the fact that these anthologies offer a fresh perspective on the increasingly diverse world of nature writing.; *Published in conjunction with The Wildlife Trusts.

Details ISBN1783962526 Publisher Elliott & Thompson Limited Series Seasons: An Anthology For The Changing Seasons Year 2016 ISBN-10 1783962526 ISBN-13 9781783962525 Format Paperback Author Melissa Harrison Pages 208 Media Book Publication Date 2016-11-17 UK Release Date 2016-11-17 Imprint Elliott & Thompson Limited Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2016-11-17 NZ Release Date 2016-11-17 Subtitle An Anthology for the Changing Seasons Edited by Melissa Harrison DEWEY 508.2 Audience General We've got this

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