# The Heeding by Rob Cowen (Paperback)

**A year of looking, listening and noticing across four unique seasons and thirty-five beautifully illustrated poems.**  
  
  
  
The world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, then quickly and irreversibly, the patterns by which we once lived altered completely.  
  
  
  
Across four seasons and a luminous series of poems and illustrations, Rob Cowen and Nick Hayes paint a picture of a year caught in the grip of history yet filled with unforgettable moments. A sparrowhawk hunting in a back street; the moon over a town with a loved one's hand held tight; butterflies massing in a high-summer yard - the everyday wonders and memories that shape a life and help us recall our own.  
  
  
  
_The Heeding_ leads us on a journey that takes its markers and signs from nature and a world filled with fear and pain but beauty and wonder too. Collecting birds, animals, trees and people together, it is a profound meditation to a time no one will forget.  
  
  
  
**'Rob Cowen, the acclaimed nature writer and author Common Ground, joins forces with printmaker Nick Hayes for this luminous sequence of poems, which forms a meditation on our relationship with the natural world through four seasons of a global pandemic.'** - Caroline Sanderson, Editor's Choice, _The Bookseller_  
  
  
  
**'Dazzling'** ROBERT MACFARLANE ⬤ '**Breathtaking!'** DARA MCANULTY ⬤ **'Exquisite'** LUCY JONES ⬤ **'Poetic'** JOANNE HARRIS ⬤ **'Tender'** TIM DEE ⬤ **'Beautiful'** WILLEM DAFOE ⬤ **'It glows'** JACKIE MORRIS

## Details

- **Price:** 8.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Elliott & Thompson Limited
- **Type:** Fiction
- **Tags:** All Books, Fiction

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