The book examines the relationship between poetic thinking and the empathetic understanding of animals, focusing on the works of Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, and Les Murray. Through detailed analyses of sound, rhythm, simile, metaphor, and imagery, it highlights how poetry fosters a unique sensitivity towards non-human creatures, revealing the deeper connections between language and our recognition of other beings.
This is a book about falling in love with vanishing thingsLate Light is the story of Michael Malay's own journey, an Indonesian-Australian-American making a home for himself in England and finding strange parallels between his life and the lives of the animals he examines. Mixing natural history with memoir, this book explores the mystery of our animal neighbours, in all their richness and variety. It is about the wonder these animals inspired in our ancestors, the hope they inspire in us, and the joy they might still hold for our children.Late Light is about migration, belonging and extinction. Through the close examination of four particular 'unloved' animals - eels, moths, crickets and mussels - Michael Malay tells the story of the economic, political and cultural events that have shaped the modern landscape of Britain.For readers of Robert Macfarlane, Raynor Winn and Helen Macdonald, Late Light is a rich blend of memoir, natural history, nature writing, and a meditation on being and belonging, from a vibrant new voice.
