My neighbours, the owls > https://lnkd.in/eVcpd3Fy In an extract from her book The Company of Owls, Polly Atkin shares the joys of living alongside owls. "Everything I know about my neighbours, the owls, I know through the imperfect lens of my own watching, my own earthbound body, my own heavy head and all it has hoarded over my lifetime." This article is extracted from The Company of Owls by Polly Atkin, published by Elliott & Thompson on 7 November 2024. Grasmere lies in the heart of the Lake District. Polly Atkin is a poet and non-fiction writer who lives in the English Lake District. Her memoir exploring place, belonging and disability, Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better (Sceptre, 2023), won the Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year 2024 and was longlisted for The Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing. #Artwork by Clare O'Neill #Books #TheLakes #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #Owls #Nature #Writing
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