DWELL (SIMON ARMITAGE) (HB)

In Cornwall’s Lost Gardens of Heligan, the reawakened landscape with its woods, meadows and 'jungle' offers a fertile realm for all sorts of creatures to inhabit. In this gorgeously illustrated collection of poems, Simon Armitage uses elements of riddle and folklore to animate a series of dwellings: the 'twig-and-leaf crow's-nest squat' of a squirrel's drey, a beaver lodge's 'spillikin stave church' and a hive's 'reactor core'. Distinctions become blurred between human and animal, natural and cultivated, emphasising the commonality of our existence and the threats we all face.