Monthly Archive for: ‘May, 2020’

Five things in iso

Here are five things I got up to in isolation during the Covid-19 lockdown (four of them book-related of course). Step away from the fridge With people’s focus on the refrigerator and what they can and can’t buy in the supermarket, it made sense to avert my eyes momentarily from the Covid-19 pandemic and fix

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Toward Antarctica: a love letter to one of the world’s most iconic places

Poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield’s fourth collection, Toward Antarctica, (Red Hen Press), is an insider’s love letter to one of the world’s most iconic wild places, and I found it unique, moving and brilliantly informative. I doubt I will ever go to the Antarctic but this book makes me feel I’ve (almost) encountered it. Bradfield recommends listening to

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