One of the other signatories to the letter was Robert Macfarlane. The alarm that this caused was quite noticeable, authors such as Morpurgo, Attwood and Maitland wrote to the OUP asking for them to be reinstated in the dictionary. Back in 2015, The Oxford University Press dropped around 50 words that were drawn from the natural world from the latest edition of its Junior dictionary they argued that it was less relevant as children were spending less time outside and were glued to the screen of a tablet or phone. Now days it is likely to be A is for Acer, B is for Blackberry and C is for Cisco.
Gone are the days when children’s alphabets would begin with A is for Acorn, B is for butterfly and C is for caterpillar. 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). All of the poems are a variation on the acrostic: instead of the first letter of each line spelling out the poem's subject, the first letter of each stanza does that.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. The poems are all about wildlife of one kind or another, and they are presented in alphabetical order. The book is oversized for one, and there was no skimping on the art, that's for sure.
The Lost Words is that book - a work that has already cast its extraordinary spell on hundreds of thousands of people and begun a grass-roots movement to re-wild childhood across Britain, Europe, and North America.Īnd oh boy, what a treat this book is! Rich language? YES. By the magic of word and paint, they sought to summon these words again into the voices, stories, and dreams of children and adults alike, and to celebrate the wonder and importance of everyday nature.
Ten years later, Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris set out to make a "spell book" that will conjure back twenty of these lost words, and the beings they name, from acorn to wren.
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