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Jackie Morris & Robert Macfarlane ‘dream of nest’
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Hello,
A beautiful, bird-filled episode from the wonderful collaborative duo of writer Robert Macfarlane and illustrator Jackie Morris. Together they have created some of the best-loved books on the natural world in recent years, including The Lost Words.
In this transcendent episode they share their quite different visions of what rest looks like for them. Robert conjures a wild, bird-filled landscape in the Scottish Cairngorms while Jackie imagines taking a sentient ship to a melding of the Rain Wilds and Earthsea. Full of wonder, wild knitting, ‘glacial erratics’, laughter and of course plenty of nature chat, this episode is a true salve for the soul.
Links from the episode:
The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane
The Lost Words by Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane
The Lost Spells by Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane
Jackie’s Instagram
Jackie’s website
Robert’s Instagram
Deep Deep Light paint brushes and paints
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Rain Wild Chronicles by Robin Hobb
Artist David Gentleman
Read about Albrecht Dürer’s painting Young Hare here
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
Read about artist Mark Rothko on the Moma website
Production Credits
Guest Booker and Admin Support - Meghan Hutchins
Substack Manager - Rebecca Armstrong
Producer - Alice Lloyd
Music - The Leaf Library theleaflibrary
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