Eerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from
the bestselling creators of Holloway'Ness goes beyond what we expect
books to do. Beyond poetry, beyond the word, beyond the bomb -- it is an
aftertime song. It is dark, ever so dark, nimble and lethal.
It
is a triumphant libretto of mythic modernism for our poisoned age. Ness
is something else, and feels like it always has been' Max Porter.
Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a ruined concrete
structure known as The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is
leading a ritual with terrible intent. But something is coming to stop
him.
Five more-than-human forms are traversing land, sea and
time towards The Green Chapel, moving to the point where they will
converge and become Ness. Ness has lichen skin and willow-bones. Ness is
made of tidal drift, green moss and deep time.
Ness has
hagstones for eyes and speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take
this island back. What happens when land comes to life? What would it
take for land to need to come to life? Using word and image, Robert
Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood have together made a minor modern myth.
Part-novella, part-prose-poem, part-mystery play, in Ness their skills
combine to dazzling, troubling effect. Robert Macfarlane is the author
of The Lost Words with Jackie Morris, The Old Ways and Underland, among
other books. Stanley Donwood is an artist and the author of Slowly
Downward and Household Worms.
Hardback version.
Ness - Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood
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