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The Wild Cards
A 100 Postcard Box Set
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A 100-postcard compilation of gorgeous hand-painted artwork from the bestselling and genre-busting phenomena The Lost Words and The Lost Spells.
In 2017, Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris broke the mould with The Lost Words, a book of paintings in watercolour and gold leaf accompanied by acrostic spell-poems. This work captured the unique essence of common but underappreciated species like Otter, Acorn, Ivy and Heron, Willow and Kingfisher. The response from readers was truly extraordinary. An instant bestseller, it inspired people of all ages around the world, prompting mass fundraising campaigns to donate copies and adaptations into folksong, symphony, theatre, puppetry, dance and mural.
Three years later, the creative duo delighted fans with a second title, The Lost Spells, celebrating the spirit of Red Fox, Silver Birch, Swallow, Jackdaw, and more.
The Wild Cards draws together 100 pieces of artwork from The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. Every named species from the books is pictured at least once, with many appearing several times, though each postcard image is unique. The series also depicts many plants and animals not named in the original books—hidden details for the keen-eyed aficionado to discover—such as Blackbird, Stag and Rowan.
On the reverse of the cards is an accompanying line of spell-text along with an identification of the depicted species. They have been otherwise left blank, their space waiting to be filled in by pen, pencil, or paint and sent out into the world to make and renew connections.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780241534090
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 October 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 64.0mm
Width: 116.0mm
Height: 169.0mm
Weight: 722g
Pages: 100
About the Author
Robert Macfarlane is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people and place. His bestselling books include Underland, Landmarks, The Old Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind, as well as a book-length prose-poem, Ness. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, and films including River and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe. He has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson and Stanley Donwood, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art, The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. As a lyricist and performer, he has written albums and songs with musicians including Cosmo Sheldrake, Karine Polwart and Johnny Flynn, with whom he has released two albums, Lost In The Cedar Wood (2021) and The Moon Also Rises (2023). In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature, and in 2022 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the field of non-fiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is currently completing his third book with Jackie Morris: The Lost Birds.
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