Time Song by Julia Blackburn Jonathan Cape friendship and love

friendship and love

There are poems to read again and again and some even to learn by heart

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and occasional prose—including the 2004 Jefferson Lecture—in a single volume

Taken together

Time Song by Julia Blackburn Jonathan Cape friendship and loveJulia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Time Song brings many such stories together as it tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country now called Doggerland, a huge and fertile area that once connected the entire east coast of England with mainland Europe,