The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost
Words, The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and
illustrations that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.
Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with
its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now, The Lost Spells,
a book kindred in spirit and tone, continues to re-wild the lives of
children and adults.
The Lost Spells evokes the wonder of everyday nature, conjuring up red
foxes, birch trees, jackdaws, and more in poems and illustrations that
flow between the pages and into readers' minds. Robert Macfarlane's
spell-poems and Jackie Morris's watercolour illustrations are musical
and magical: these are summoning spells, words of recollection, charms
of protection. To read The Lost Spells is to see anew the natural world
within our grasp and to be reminded of what happens when we allow it to
slip away.