- Publisher: Little Toller
- Year: 2021
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 128pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 230x156mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9781908213891
- Product code: 539632
Aurochs and Auks
Essays on Mortality and Extinction
John Burnside New Hardback
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After his own near-death experience in the Covid pandemic, the poet and novelist John Burnside contemplates two extinct species, the great oxen that once roamed Europe and a seabird hunted out of existence in the 19th century. They provide a springboard for his exploration of grief, the climate crisis, and how we can learn to live more harmoniously with nature.
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Aurochs and Auks is a deeply moving and intelligent meditation on the natural processes of death and extinction, renewal and continuity. Prompted by his own near-death in a time of pandemic, John Burnside explores the history of the auroch (Bos primigenius), the wild cattle that has become the source of so much sacred and cultural imagery across Europe, from the Minotaur and the Cretan bull dances to Spanish corrida traditions. He then tells the story of the Great Auk, a curious bird whose extinction in the mid-nineteenth century was caused by human persecution and before stepping into multiple extinctions of the outer and inner world.
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After his own near-death experience in the Covid pandemic, the poet and novelist John Burnside contemplates two extinct species, the great oxen that once roamed Europe and a seabird hunted out of existence in the 19th century. They provide a springboard for his exploration of grief, the climate crisis, and how we can learn to live more harmoniously with nature.
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