The Book Club
Rob Cowen and Nick Hayes’ compelling new book of poetry, ‘The Heeding’.
Ticket Information
Rob Cowen & Nick Hayes
Date: Saturday 15th May
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Location: Online Zoom event
Tickets: Free (donations welcomed), booking essential
Join Peter Fiennes talking to Rob Cowen and Nick Hayes about their new book of poetry, The Heeding.
Followed by a Q & A.
Joining information will be sent to you when you book.
Rob Cowen and Nick Hayes talk about their new book of poetry, The Heeding, with Peter Fiennes.
Across four seasons and thirty-five luminous poems and illustrations, Rob Cowen and Nick Hayes lead 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, The Heeding is a profound meditation to a time no-one will forget.
At its heart, this is a book that helps us look again, to heed: to be attentive to this world we share and this history we’re living through, to be aware of how valuable and fragile we are, to grieve what’s lost and to hope for a better and brighter tomorrow.
‘Dazzling, moving… A book that will touch many, and be given often: here, take this, you must read this.’ Robert Macfarlane
‘Poignant and exquisite’ Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden
Rob Cowen is is an award-winning writer, hailed as one of the UK’s most original voices on nature and place. His book, Common Ground (2015) was shortlisted for the Portico, Richard Jefferies Society and Wainwright Prizes and voted one of the nation’s favourite nature books on BBC Winterwatch. He lives in North Yorkshire.
Nick Hayes is a writer, illustrator and print-maker. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Book of Trespass (Bloomsbury; 2020). He has published graphic novels with Jonathan Cape and exhibited across the country. He lives on the Kennet and Avon canal.
This event is supported by the Woodland Trust