Night Vision

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Open a door and step through it. You can’t see a thing: you could be anywhere. Step over the threshold, into the dark, and feel your way. We humans have a complicated relationship with the dark. We fear it, and make great efforts to blot it out. But we also long for it, especially if we live in cities, or remember the starry skies of our childhoods. Darkness opens us up to risk, delight and transformation. Is it possible to prise it free of its negative associations, which are as old as human thought itself? Drawing on memory and imagination, history and ecology, literature and myth, ‘Night Vision’ is an expansive, thrilling journey into the true dark.

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‘An elegant and deeply sensory exploration of darkness in all its forms’ Katherine May, author of Wintering

An exhilarating leap into darkness: the new work of non-fiction from award-winning poet and writer Jean Sprackland

In her search for a new, more intimate relationship with darkness, acclaimed poet and writer Jean Sprackland confronts some of the deepest – and darkest – questions about who we are and our place in the world.

With glimmering prose that draws on memory and imagination, history and ecology, literature and myth, Night Vision is an expansive, thrilling journey into the true dark.

‘Stylish and crammed with memorable details’ Robert Crawford, author of Old World

'In this lyrical series of essays, Jean Sprackland falls in love with the dark… Evocative and ambitious' Irish Times

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Weight 0.233 kg
Dimensions 19.7 × 13 × 1.9 cm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

288

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

306.45 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K