Field Notes from the Edge

Field Notes from the Edge’s magic lies partly in the sheer quality of the prose, partly in Evans’ ability to loop together disparate threads[…] a profoundly satisfying read. – Melissa Harrison * Financial Times *A wonderfully original book…Evans has a superb eye, a fine ear for all kinds of speech, a love of droll reality and a lyrical sense of all life…a joy. – Richard Kerridge, author of Cold BloodThe best account I know of how it goes with our wilds…[a] deeply loveable book – Tim Dee, author of Four FieldsThis lyrical prose makes the reader itch to get out into nature…Ultimately, Evans draws on the past to confront our present and ask what kind of future might be possible * Independent *Paul Evans’s important new book is the first indisputable classic of twenty-first-century nature writing…A masterpiece – Jim Perrin, author of WestBeautifully observed field notes from a fine writer * BBC Countryfile Magazine *A strange, wonderful, maudlin, meditative and romantic book. A book of great sensorial qualities, deeply stratified…I urge it upon you. – Neil Sentance * Caught by the River *Paul Evans [is] a rare original…with his mastery of otherwise unseen moments of life on earth – Maggie Gee, author of My Animal LifeStunning, thoughtful and closely observed…the sort of writing that compels you to go outdoors and re-experience the world – Gerard Woodward, author of I’ll Go to Bed at NoonEvans seeks an intimacy in his language….We have been in the company of a master * Resurgence and Ecologist magazine *

Best known as the author of the Guardian’s Country Diary, Paul Evans is a naturalist, university lecturer, broadcaster of natural-history documentaries and award-winning dramas for Radio 4, and performance poet. He writes for publications including BBC Wildlife, Geographical, The National Trust Magazine and Country Living; and his work appears in many anthologies. He has had his poetry set to music by an American folk group and even been the subject of an MA at a Belgian university. He lives with his family in Much Wenlock, Shropshire where he was born.