![]() ![]() Here she shares her story, and reveals the beautiful artwork itself. These works are from Morris and Macfarlane’s bestselling The Lost Words, a ‘book of spells’ that seeks to conjure the near-lost magic and. But a family tragedy meant she had to work in the toughest of circumstances. In the seating areas in the lift alcoves, you will find illustrations by Jackie Morris and poetry by Robert Macfarlane, with Welsh translation by Mererid Hopwood and design by Alison OToole. For the word starling, the named bird, painted in detail, perches on a branch against a gold background, while the acrostic begins: “Should green-as-moss be mixed with/ blue-of-steel be mixed with gleam-of-gold/ you’d still fall short by far of the – / Tar-bright oil-slick sheen and/ gloss of starling wing.” The duo captures mystery and magic throughout, offering up “spells of many kinds that might just, by the old, strong magic of being spoken aloud. After The Lost Words, illustrator Jackie Morris decided to collaborate once again with writer Robert Macfarlane. Nature and travel writer Macfarlane offers “a spellbook for conjuring back these lost words” and transforms each inclusion into a marvelous lyrical acrostic Morris’s paintings of wildlife echo the complexity and vibrancy of Macfarlane’s poetry. ![]() A deeply reflective and gorgeously illustrated oversize volume lists natural words that were excluded from the most recent edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary, among them dandelion, heron, willow, and wren (replacement words in that text include broadband and blog). ![]()
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