Is a River Alive?

Robert Macfarlaneis internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people and place. His bestselling books includeUnderland,Landmarks,The Old Ways,The Wild PlacesandMountains of the Mind, as well as a book-length prose-poem,Ness. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, and films includingRiverandMountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe. He has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson and Stanley Donwood, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art,The Lost WordsandThe Lost Spells.As a lyricist and performer, he has written albums and songs with musicians including Cosmo Sheldrake, Karine Polwart and Johnny Flynn, with whom he has released two albums,Lost In The Cedar Wood(2021) andThe Moon Also Rises(2023). In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature, and in 2022 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the field of non-fiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is currently completing his third book with Jackie Morris:The Lost Birds.