Burning Season

Name: Burning Season
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SKU: 9781780376455
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By Yvonne Reddick

Summary

Burning Season by Yvonne Reddick is a compelling blend of poems, nature diaries, and lyric essays that explore themes of fire, survival, climate change, and nature's resilience. Rooted in a poignant family history, the collection also celebrates the enduring spirit of the natural world, from planting oak saplings to witnessing rare wildlife in the Highlands and imagining life beneath the waves.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Burning Season

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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary poetry, environmental themes, and nature writing, particularly those who appreciate reflective and evocative literary explorations of climate and familial history.

Burning Season is a book about fire and survival, climate change and nature’s defiance. Yvonne Reddick's first book-length collection combines poems with nature diaries and lyric essays to trace an intriguing family history in the oil industry.

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Winner of The Laurel Prize 2023 Best UK First Collection, Burning Season is a book about fire and survival, climate change and nature's defiance.

The book combines poems with nature diaries and lyric essays to trace an intriguing family history. This family story forms the bedrock of Burning Season.

Burning Season also includes poems that celebrate nature's vibrant resilience: planting oak saplings, spotting rare ptarmigan in the Highland winter, imagining life in an underwater city.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Acclaimed for its precise and beautiful portrayal of the natural world, Burning Season is praised as an elegiac and original collection that acts as both a witness to nature's wounds and a call to action. David Morley highlights its ecological education, while Helen Mort and PN Review commend its vivid imagery and somber musicality. The New Welsh Review remarks on its emotional impact, describing the work as impossible to read without being moved.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780376455

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 May 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Edition: Paperback original

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 72

Collections

Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Yvonne Reddick

About the Author

Yvonne Reddick is an award-winning writer, editor and ecopoetry scholar. She has received a Leadership Fellowship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Poetry Society's inaugural Peggy Poole Award, a Northern Writer's Award and a Creative Futures Literary Award. Her work has appeared in The Guardian Review, Poetry Review and the New Statesman, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC North West Tonight. She is also a book critic for The Times Literary Supplement. She now lives in Manchester.