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the book examines the catastrophic conflict between Progress and Nature in the Anthropocene Age

Luke Brown leads the reader beyond easy partisanship and into much trickier terrain

Blood & Cord Format:Paperback to a comment on theA child is born and everything is made anew. In this blur of new beginnings there are tears and laughter, new words and new silences: this is an unmaking and remaking of the self. From short stories about unnerved fathers and lost mothers, to poems about half built Lego palaces and friends who share their deepest secrets, Blood & Cord is a raw exploration of new parenthood. Voicing silenced conversations about loss, grief, and loneliness, as well as