A MONUMENT TO MOSS
Poetic and beautiful prose that celebrates the verdant variety of these astonishing ancient plants
BOOK TWELVE WORDS FOR MOSS
BY ELIZABETH-JANE BURNETT ALLEN LANE, £16.99 (PB)
In this luminous book, poetry and dreamy prose weave a strange kind of mossy magic. Taking the “most overlooked of life forms” as her inspiration, Burnett explores intriguing parallels between the lives of mosses and her own. She meets an abundance of them in wetlands around the UK, visiting raised bogs and reedbeds, damp caves, rewilded fens and Welsh rainforests, and also
