The Lost Spells with Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris

Hattie Klotz hosts a conversation with Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane, co-creators of The Lost Words and The Lost Spells.
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.

[@jylyhughes5085]

The postman just delivered my precious copy of "The Lost Spells" ....... gorgeous. Thank you Jackie and Robert .... both of you are precious xxxxx

[@SourabhaRao]

Thank you so very much for creating this beautiful piece of art!

[@paulasymonds7979]

I am so glad that I listened to this. Thank you 🙏❤️

[@rdgist]

Loved the exchange! Thank you!

[@abrahamlincoln4264]

Thank you for this!