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The Lost Spells

By: Robert Macfarlane
Narrated by: Julie Fowlis, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Johnny Flynn, Robert Macfarlane, Chris Watson
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The follow-up to the internationally best-selling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is an audio treasure that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.

Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted listeners with its poetry. Now, The Lost Spells, a book kindred in spirit and tone, continues to re-wild the lives of children and adults.

The Lost Spells evokes the wonder of everyday nature, conjuring up red foxes, birch trees, jackdaws, and more. These are summoning spells, words of recollection, charms of protection. Across a bewitching natural soundscape by renowned wildlife recordist Chris Watson, readers Yrsa Daley-Ward, Johnny Flynn, and Julie Fowlis bring the magic of both nature and language to listeners in an immersive and unique audio experience. To hear The Lost Spells is to see anew the natural world within our grasp and to be reminded of what happens when we allow it to slip away.

©2020 Robert Macfarlane (P)2020 Anansi Audio
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The voices bring these poems to life… to borrow words from Anthony Burgess it was “gorgeousness and gorgeosity… a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now…”

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Audio version of Robert Macfarlane's The Lost Spells

I own the print version of this work, and greatly prefer it over this audio version. The book has Jackie Morris's gorgeous illustrations and you can linger over Macfarlane's lovely poetry. I loved Johnny Flynn's narration, but the female readers were grating to my ear: the trilled r's of the Scottish one and the explosive consonants of the other.

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