Robert Macfarlaneさんのイラストまとめ

Word of the Day: "siocán" - lit. "frost-bird"; Irish name for the redwing, a glow-flanked thrush arriving now from Scandinavia to winter on berries. Redwings often move at night, dipping in flocks across fields, singing to keep contact. Seen them yet?
(Engraving; HL Meyer 1842)

In case of interest to teachers planning the term ahead––there are now free 35-page 'Explorer's Guides'/teaching resource-packs to accompany both The Lost Words & Spell Songs, written by @JohnEvajohn59.
The Lost Words: https://t.co/vwAYBBly4z
Spell Songs: https://t.co/qoP1zRfQRG

Landmarks, a book I wrote about landscape & language, has been adapted by @hotelneonmusic into Place Language, a compilation album by 28 international sound-artists, field recordists & musicians.
All proceeds to @warchild.
Details & sample tracks here:
https://t.co/E5qMUSqW6c

Word of the day: "nefelibata" –– literally a "cloud-walker"; that is, a daydreamer, one who wanders lost in thought or wonder (Portuguese; poetic. From the Ancient Greek νεφελοβάτης, nephelobátēs, "one who walks the clouds").
Also–– esp. in art or literature––a rule-breaker.

Word of the day: "mallow" -- the Malva genus of herbaceous plants, blooming pink & purple now on verges & waste-ground, a worldwide wonder-weed widely used in herbalism & cooking. One of mallow's English folk-names is "cheeses"; its name in Hebrew & Arabic translates as "bread".

Word of the Day: "goosegrass" - one of the many common names of Galium aparine (from the Greek 'apairo', to cling to, catch hold of), a creeping weed which grows small super-sticky burrs. Also known as "sticky-willy", "cleavers", "gripgrass"; a plant of childhood pranks & jokes.

Word of the day: “supercilious” - haughty, contemptuous, disdainful, eyebrow-raising (from the Latin "supercilium", eyebrow). In birds, the "supercilium" is an eyebrow-like stripe of feathers (cf The Supercilious Hummingbird).

The audiobook of The Lost Words is released digitally today. The spells are spoken, magically, by @BZephaniah, @cerysmatthews, @guy_garvey & @edibow & through them field-recordist Chris Watson has woven a natural soundscape. CD coming soon.
Audible/sample: https://t.co/5ntUq38DB3

Word of the day: "exaltation" - group noun for skylarks ("an exaltation of larks") evoking the heartlift these bright birds bring & the song that tumbles from them (Latin exaltāre, to raise up on high)
Image from The Lost Words by @JackieMorrisArt & me: our book a year old today.

"A 100-seater amphitheatre built entirely out of unwanted pianos...": The Pianodrome will be constructed in the grounds of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh this summer. It sounds - will sound - extraordinary.
More here: https://t.co/B2OdoFg8ig