Splendid Be the Earth
A love letter to the mountains, fading landscapes and everything not yet lost
$35.61
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2027
Summary
Award-winning Swedish poet Mats Söderlund explores the changes in his local mountains, along with the grief of losing our natural places - encouraging us to save what’s left.
Solastalgia is the distress caused by losing our beloved landscapes. How will we mourn the ice?
Mats Söderlund first hiked to the Helags massif, Sweden, in 1976, aged eleven. In 2022, he could see the glacier had shrunk. The Nordic region is warming quickly, and Mats shows us how an increase of 3°C looks …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781836810551 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1836810555 |
| Author: | Mats Söderlund, Alice E. Olsson |
| Publisher: | Watkins Media Limited |
| Imprint: | Duncan Baird Publishers |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2027 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 135mm x 216mm |
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Mats Söderlund
Mats Söderlund made his debut as a poet in 1992 and was awarded The Swedish Writers’ Union’s prestigious Catapult Award for best literary debut. He has won numerous literary awards and scholarships, including the Swedish Norrlands Literary Prize in 2024 for this book. His roots are deeply entrenched in Nordic folklore and the Northern narrative tradition, where not everything can be explained.
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