Gifts of Gravity and Light: A Nature Almanac for the 21st Century

The changing seasons of the year are endless source of strangeness and wonder. Gifts of Gravity and Light invites you to experience Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter through fourteen different voices. Greet the arrival of cherry blossom in East London with a Cambodian new year’s dance; watch sea otters at play in the summer sun; gather armfuls of hops in a Romany song to the autumn; yield to the icy stillness of winter in the Cairngorms or pine for ‘sun drink’ days of a Jamaican childhood.

With a foreword by Bernadine Evaristo and contributions from Jackie Kay, Kaliane Bradley, Pippa Marland, Testament, Michael Malay, Tishani Doshi, Jay Griffiths, Luke Turner, Anita Roy, Raine Geoghegan, Zakiya McKenzie, Alys Fowler, Amanda Thomson and Simon Armitage, this almanac reflects not only the diversity of the writers featured, but the endlessly changing natural world itself.

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

ISBN: 9781529363159

Pages: 272

Weight: 380g

Dimensions: 218 x 138 x 30 mm