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A fresh look at the natural world, as seen through the eyes of a poet-scientist. Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2022.
"In this vivid, wide-ranging and reflexively-aware collection, Sarah Watkinson is a poet who is also a scientist, rather than a scientist writing poetry. She brings knowledge and experience, professional and personal, to her poetry and demonstrates mastery of her medium. She addresses important and profound themes but always with a light touch – and humour is never far away. This is an impressive first collection – and a model of informed nature writing."
– Steve Ely, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Huddersfield
"In this collection, Sarah Watkinson provides a unique glimpse of the natural world, seen through the eyes of a poet-scientist. Most of us are simply incapable of putting into words how we really feel about the animals and plants we study. Thank goodness we have Sarah to do it for us."
– Lindsay Turnbull, Director of Undergraduate Biology Teaching, University of Oxford
About the Author
Sarah Watkinson is Emeritus Research Fellow in Fungal Biology at the University of Oxford. Her debut poetry pamphlet Dung Beetles Navigate by Starlight won the 2016 Cinnamon Press Pamphlet Prize. She was inaugural Writer in Residence at Wytham Woods from 2019 and has co-organised annual science poetry conferences at the University of Oxford. She is married, with two children and four grandchildren, and lives in Oxfordshire and Northumberland.
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Imprint: Valley Press
Edition: Second (May 2024)
Paperback ISBN: 9781915606235
Catalogue number: VP0233
Page count: 80
Trim size: 216x140mm
