In 2017 he was awarded the EM Forster Prize for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
He has collaborated with artists, film-makers, actors, photographers and musicians, including Hauschka, Willem Dafoe, Karine Polwart and Stanley Donwood. His work has been translated into many languages, won prizes around the world, and his books have been widely adapted for film, television, stage and radio. Robert Macfarlane is the author of prize-winning and bestselling books about landscape, nature, people and place, including Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (2003), The Wild Places (2007), The Old Ways (2012), Holloway (2013, with Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards), Landmarks (2015), The Lost Words: A Spell Book (with the artist Jackie Morris, 2017) and Underland: A Deep Time Journey (2019). Dara McAnulty, the author of Diary of a Young Naturalist, described it as “an amulet” that “can be carried like a talisman, out into the world where it is very much needed”.Robert Macfarlane is a British nature writer and literary critic.Įducated at Nottingham High School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is currently a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and teaches in the Faculty of English at Cambridge. Unlike The Lost Words, which started a trend for the oversized book format, The Lost Spells is pocket-sized.
And respect, for the wisdom of trees, the shape of a bird, the wild of the fox.” If there is a message there, it is simply wonder and awe at the beautiful complexity of the non-human. The group have announced they will turn The Lost Spells into another album and they hope to tour the new music next year.Īsked whether there was an environmental message in The Lost Spells, Morris said: “It’s a celebration of the nearby wild. The Lost Words led to the formation of a folk and world music “supergroup” that included the musicians Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis, Seckou Keita and Kris Drever, who wrote and performed live a critically acclaimed Spell Songs album that reached No 2 in the iTunes chart. He added: “The amazing thing about the success of The Lost Words was it was nothing to do with the publishers’ promotion, it was entirely to do with the public picking it up and running with it.” Everything about it is absolutely beautiful and we will be getting behind it in a big way,” he said.
“The spells are even better and I love the fact that it says explicitly ‘this is a book of spells to be spoken aloud’.
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