Feather, Leaf, Bark, and Stone

Feather, Leaf, Bark, and Stone
Pages:320 pages
Book Art:Photographs throughout
Size: 5-1/4 x 9 inch
Publisher:Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date: August 4, 2026
ISBN: 9781645025412

Feather, Leaf, Bark, and Stone

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$29.95



This is poetry reimagined by a visual artist; words transformed back into their original function as images.

Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone is a book of poems and meditations with a difference. More than a hundred short texts have been typed onto small squares of gold leaf, then photographed. These pieces are arranged in a sequence which culminates in a glorious final section made up of texts typed directly onto leaves, bark and feathers.

This book is full of the light and wind that fills the Pembrokeshire coast where it was crafted, each page anchored to the landscape by the mechanical rhythm of Jackie’s antique typewriters. The result is a collection of individual artworks to be both looked at and read.

Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone confirms Jackie Morris as an artist and writer with limitless creativity and expanding power.

 


About Jackie Morris

Jackie Morris is an author and illustrator. She studied illustration at Hereford College of Art and Bath Academy and has illustrated many books, and written some. The Lost Words, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane, won the Kate Greenaway Medal 2019.

Books by Jackie Morris