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beautiful and too short, There's much to like here, but it didn't quite coalesce for me, Perhaps on a reread MYCKET FIN, A prose poem inspired by Orford Ness, a place I have never visited and which could now only disappoint me, Rob Macfarlane writes, with haunting, louring illustrations from Stanley Donwood, the pair of them weaving modern myth from the site's history, a history that helpfully already has the contours of legend an outlaw terrain become a place of military experimentation, which in turn has now softened into a nature reserve.
Here it is the Green Chapel, on which five strange voyagers converge to prevent one final destructive forging by the Armourer and his congregation.
Calling it the Green Chapel nods to Gawain And The Green Knight, of course, and that gives some idea of the mood here it feels like eavesdropping on a ritual from some distant and halfunderstood culture, even as it's threaded through with references to the stuff of everyday life, from songbirds and winds to Lego Star Wars figures.
But really it could be any clash of pantheons, of life and death, from the oldest Chaoskampf myths through to the latest superhero film.
You could also draw a parallel with Alan Garner's Boneland a fractured telling, and one which could hardly have happened without modernism, that nonetheless creates a feeling of something primal and ancient.


All of which said, it's not the first book this year where I feel obliged to mention the more mundane consideration of cost to reading timefor an already slim volume with plenty of blank space.
It's a lovely object, and one I was lucky enough to find in the library, but for those whose local services have been hit harder by the cruel ongoing absurdity that is austerity, it's hard to unreservedly recommend as a purchase.
Part of me wonders if it might not be more at home as a performance, where its quality of litany and its story of coming together to thwart the seemingly inevitable could be a powerful combination.
Wat een boek. Iedereen die nieuwsgierig is naar boeken met een vorm die op geen enkele andere vorm lijkt, naar teksten waarvan je net niet vast kunt pakken waar ze over gaan, maar die toch wonderlijke, verontrustende beelden op je netvlies etsen, beelden die je nog nooit hebt gezien, beelden die ook nog eens via broeierige potloodtekeningen tot je komen, lees dit.


Ness feels like a modern mythology a story more felt than understood, more intuited than dissected,

The setting for Macfarlanes eerie, spectral fable is Orford Ness, “an island of secrets”, a “cold marsh”, a “a lockedin place that shifts in its sleep”.
Used as a secret military base during most of theth century, Orford Ness was a site for bomb testing and atomics weapons research before it was converted into a nature reserve.
Video tours of the place and its abandoned pagodas evoke an eerie sense of desolation a haunting premonition of what the world will look like once the human species has managed to destroy itself.
This is the same feeling that the prose poem and line drawings in Ness evoke,

The plot, if you can call it that, draws on the geomorphology of the place the shingle spit, moss, lichen, marsh, brackish water and wildlife to chart the clash of human and environmental forces.
The human aspect is represented by six archetypal figures the Armourer, the Engineer, the Botanist, the Ornithologist, the Physicist and the Bryonist who are engaged on a course of destruction, while the environmental opposition is symbolized by five elemental beings called “It”, “He”, “She”, “They” and “As”.
These beings can be briefly, if inaccurately, summarized as ocean gyre, bird song, vegetation, rock formation and dark matter / nothingness,

If the above premise sounds rather vague and impressionistic, that is because Ness feels like an echo, a theme song to a larger, implied epic.
And yet, it is a text that lingers and grows on you, like the moss and hyphae that populate its story,

Mood: Otherwordly
Rating:,/

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Na zeventien jaar bergtoppen en grotten trotseren om de natuur enthousiast en erudiet in boekvorm te vereeuwigen, neemt Robert Macfarlane met deze geïllustreerde allegorie een zijsprong.
Ness is een 'vergaansmythe' waarin biologische oerkrachten zich bundelen in hun opstand tegen het metalige en plastic antropoceen, Ondanks de beklemmende poëzie die net als in het geslaagdere Lanny van Max Porter trapsgewijs door driftige natuur overwoekerd lijkt, laat het ongrijpbare vertelsel de lezer met halflege handen achter.
This story rises like the tide and the lichen around you as you read, It shapeshifts and shimmers. Utterly transporting.

It has special resonance for me because Ive visited the place it tells about, but I dont think you need to have been there for it to move through you like a dream.
Wow. What a read. Just blown away at what I just read, Part poetry part novel it displays the scene of the mysterious green chapel and its relationship with the land, Obviously inspired by decrepit ruins by the sea but they have spun a story that is impossibly dense despite its short length,

Don't want to go into my interpretation of the story, That's part of the joy of reading is to piece together the narrative and metaphors,

Fan of poetry, give it a try,
Fan of high art pieces, its a must,

Its just a great read, In Ness, Macfarlane fashions a fabulistic allegory set on the titular coastal landform, Here resides The Green Chapel wherein six archetypal figures The Armourer The Engineer, etc, gather for a black mass intent upon bringing about Earths apocalyptic end, Ness, once a site of nuclear bomb manufacture and testing, now a preserved environment, is, in Macfarlanes words, “a landscape produced by a collision of the human death drive and natural life”.
Just so, this is a collaborate, collisive work, alternating between the prose poem proper and Donwoods exquisite line drawings, The shapeshifting, impressionistic, lyrical qualityand just general strangenessof the piece put me in mind of Max Porters Lanny which is

no bad thing, But this is less plotdriven more 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 by design and theme, contemplating slippery issues central to the Anthropocene its amoral framing ruination as a potential revival for the natural world, relieved of humankind harm.
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Bijzonder boekje dat zeker gebaat is met meerdere herlezingen, Somewhere on a saltandshingle island, inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a black mass with terrible intent.


But something is coming to stop him,

Five morethanhuman forms are traversing land, sea and time towards The Green Chapel, moving to the point where they will converge and become Ness.
Ness has lichen skin and willowbones, Ness is made of tidal drift, green moss and deep time, Ness has hagstones for eyes and speaks only in birds, And Ness has come to take this island back,

What happens when land comes to life What would it take for land to need to come to life Using word and image, Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood have together made a minor modern myth.
Partnovella, partprosepoem, partmystery play, in Ness their skills combine to dazzling, troubling effect,

Robert Macfarlane is the author of The Lost Words with Jackie Morris, The Old Ways and Underland, among other books.
Stanley Donwood is an artist and the author of Slowly Downward and Household Worms, His next books are There Will Be No Quiet and Bad Island, i dunno man. i had no clue what was going on, aye there were some pretty sentences but all in all I feel annoyed I picked this up, The arts pretty tho. On a shingle island, a figure called the Armourer is at work, He is standing in the Green chapel and is assisted by the Engineer, the botanist the physicist and the ornithologist, He is invoking the Firing song, a dark ceremony that will bring destruction, Five humanlike forms are converging on the Green Chapel and are intent on stopping him,

She makes green amp green fills the air around her amp warps hard into objects within her radiance,

There is Drift, who is a world shaper, He who is water, She who is earth, They who are rock and As who is the very air around.
They are moving through land, sea, time and space to the Green Chapel where they will become one, where they will become Ness, They want their island back,

Listen. Listen now. Listen to Ness

This is a stunning if slender book, It is part story and part poem, with taut writing that writhes with dark metaphor, Macfarlane takes familiar tropes from folk horror, dystopia, science fiction and drapes them over this unreal landscape to make a thriller that is as troubling as it is surreal.
A hagstone allowing a glimpse of the future and the past separate each section, This unreal landscape of shifting shingle and harsh military structures is bought to chilling life by the stunning art from Donwood that captures the eeriness of the place.
Very highly recommended. "her skin is lichen amp her flesh is moss amp her bones are fungi, she breathes in spores amp she moves by hyphae, she is rockbreaker, a treespeaker, a placeshaper, a worldmaker" Prachtig, bijna Shakespeariaans geschreven verhaal, dat eigenlijk veel te kort is, De wetenschappers doen aan als oude toverkollen zingend rond het meest verschrikkelijke dat mensenhanden ooit gemaakt hebben als was het een kookpot, Het verdient het hardop gelezen te worden, Should've either been shorter and sweeter or longer and more developed but still quite cool , Macfarlane is hit or miss for me, Hit sitelinkLandmarks. This ones a miss, pretentious and plotless, a sort of play for five voices set at the former atomic bomb testing site Orford Ness.
Environmental threat is juxtaposed with the benign neglect of a site returned to nature, The repetitive, declarative style worked well in sitelinkThe Lost Words, but not so here, A line I liked though its marred by jargon: “She is committed to redefining decay as a form of verdancy, individuality as a biological aberration amp gender as a parallax error or species anomaly.
” As good as incomprehensible but soooo beautiful :
Thank you Random House for the ARC Just beautiful, I read it twice over, cover to cover, The characters are described in such detail the you can almost see, smell and hear them,
The book itself is a work of art, I am so pleased to own a copy! !!!!! Wat een heerlijk boekje, Ben ooit nog aan Orford Ness geweest, en hij had me helemaal mee, Mysteriously haunting and reverberating. Wauw een verhaal om te voelen, Werkelijk prachtig geschreven en veel te kort I amsure this will be recognised as a classic, I should not have any reservations given that I've just given thisstars, but two things occur to me,. I think it really helps your understanding of this book if you have read Macfarlane's other books, This desperately needs a childrens version, a bit longer, less technical, more explained, That book would definitely go down as a classic, I'm probably crazy for saying this, but this book did not have enough vibe, Robert Macfarlane is a British nature writer and literary critic, Educated at Nottingham High School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is currently a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and teaches in the Faculty of English at Cambridge.
Robert Macfarlane is the author of prize winning and bestselling books about landscape, nature, people and place, including Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Holloway, with Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards, Landmarks, The Lost Words: A Spell Book with the artist Jackie Morris,and Underland: A Deep Time Journey.
His work has been translated into many languages, won prizes around the Robert Macfarlane is a British nature writer and literary critic, Educated at Nottingham High School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is currently a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and teaches in the Faculty of English at Cambridge.
Robert Macfarlane is the author of prize winning and bestselling books about landscape, nature, people and place, including Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Holloway, with Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards, Landmarks, The Lost Words: A Spell Book with the artist Jackie Morris,and Underland: A Deep Time Journey.
His work has been translated into many languages, won prizes around the world, and his books have been widely adapted for film, television, stage and radio.
He has collaborated with artists, film makers, actors, photographers and musicians, including Hauschka, Willem Dafoe, Karine Polwart and Stanley Donwood, Inhe was awarded the EM Forster Prize for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, sitelink.