Burning Season

Burning Season is a book about fire and survival, climate change and natures defiance. Yvonne Reddicks understanding of climate change is uniquely personal: her father was a petroleum engineer, and many members of her family worked in the fossil fuel industry. The collection speaks of the paradox that her Dads gift to her was her love of nature and mountain landscapes.The book combines poems with nature diaries and lyric essays to trace an intriguing family history. This family story forms the bedrock ofBurning Season.Burning Season includes a series of vivid, moving and heartfelt poems that explore her grief following her fathers death in a hiking accident. These are set against a wider backdrop of ecological loss and heartbreak.Here, too, are poems that celebrate natures vibrant resilience: planting oak saplings, spotting rare ptarmigan in the Highland winter, imagining life in an underwater city.