NEW WELSH WRITING AWARDS WINNER 2021

In pursuit of feeling ‘sharply alive’, Jasmine Donahaye roams Wales and beyond, undoing old lessons and confronting fear. Sometimes bristling, always ethical, Birdsplaining upends familiar ways of seeing the natural world.

Jasmine Donahaye

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Birdsplaining

A NATURAL HISTORY

I LOVED IT Kathryn Aalto

FRESH, MODERN, FORENSIC Gwyneth Lewis

AN ABSOLUTE KINGFISHER Mike Parker

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‘A BEAUTIFUL [ESSAY] COLLECTION WHERE THE NONHUMAN APPEARS AS A CLOSE NEIGHBOUR.... [ IT] SEARCHES FOR HOPE AND RESILIENCE IN TIMES OF RISK New Welsh Reader ‘CREATES ITS OWN ECOLOGICAL NICHE’ Caught by the River ‘BRIDGES THE VERY GAP [ IN NATURE WRITING] THAT [ IT] IDENTIFIES' The Welsh Agenda ‘SUPERB… BY TURNS MOVING, FUNNY, ILLUMINATING… AND… THOUGHT-PROVOKING’ GoodReads