GatheringGathering brings together essays by women of colour across the UK writing about their relationships with nature, in a genre long dominated by male, white, middle class writers. In redressing this imbalance, this moving collection considers climate justice, neurodiversity, mental health, academia, inherited histories, colonialism, whiteness, music, hiking and so much more. These personal, creative, and fierce essays will broaden both conversations and

Everyone laughed—me too—

‘On a first reading Handling is a convincing and likeable book

his reader

mirroring the process whereby this small city near Finis Terrae became central to human patrimony and declared a world heritage site by UNESCO

versions of Ovid’s verse alongside original poems exploring the history of the old second-hand dictionary used to translate it

place and moments of uncertainty coalescing into meaning

Everybody on Earth wakes up with their knees on backwards

shaded by grief

and the colonised dictums that the mother in ‘The Bride’ offers her daughter about how a respectable woman lives

Infused by the colour blue

They are not afraid to visit the uncomfortable places where true humanity resides

The first-ever selected poems in English of the important 19th-century Belgian poet and author of classic novel Bruges la Morte