A01=Ellie Evelyn Orrell
Author_Ellie Evelyn Orrell
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forthcoming
Gathering
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- ISBN 9781837600199
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 06 Aug 2026
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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I follow the patterns in ever-widening circles. Gathering dust in the heat of summer. Rainwater in all seasons. Occasional snow, glimpsed in the kernel of a persimmon seed. Bramble, acorn, hawthorn and cherry. Tracing the lines of a landscape and the patterns of a year. Towards a greater appreciation of what was there all along.
Along the seasons of a year, Gathering Days recalls the ways in which the act of collecting might offer a sense of purpose in times of uncertainty. Walks across the fields and coasts of Wales bring encounters with stories from elsewhere – a quiet garden in Kyoto or a lamplit street in Seville.
Woven together, these contemplations of land, self and place form a memoir that celebrates the small yet miraculous moments of everyday life, while asking the question of how we might steady ourselves against a landscape.
