By Ruth Padel
In 90 richly diversified poems and illuminating prose interludes, Ruth Padel's unique new publication weaves technology, delusion, wild nature and human heritage to conjure a global created and sustained by way of migration.
'We're all from someplace else,' she starts, tracing the millennia-old trips of cells, timber, birds and beasts. ducks conflict raging winds over Mount Everest, lemurs skim precipices in Madagascar and wildebeest, on the climax in their epic trek from Tanzania, courageous a river jam-packed with the biggest, hungriest crocodiles in Africa.
Human migration has formed civilisation yet at the present time is without doubt one of the maximum demanding situations the realm faces. In a sequence of incisive pics, Padel turns to the struggles of human displacement - the Flight into Egypt, John James Audubon emigrating to the United States (feeding migrant birds en route), migrant staff in Mumbai and refugees labouring over a greatly altering planet - to teach how the aim of migration, for either people and animals, is survival.
Poignant, thought-provoking and totally compelling, here's a remarkable tapestry of lifestyles at the stream from the acclaimed writer of Darwin: A lifestyles in Poems.
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