There's something magical about The Lost Words, the new exhibition at St Davids' Oriel y Parc. Growing out of the much-praised book of the same name, it's a collaboration between author Robert Macfarlane and Pembrokeshire-based artist Jackie Morris, with Welsh-language translations by Mererid Hopwood, that celebrates the connections between language and the natural world. Buzz review here.
Visiting with PJ Harvey's new LP fresh in my ears seemed particularly apt, given that I Inside The Old Year Dying - challenging and inscrutable though it is - finds her communing with nature through evocative terms drawn from Dorset dialect. Macfarlane would approve.
My visit also served as a reminder that Macfarlane's Landmarks is still sitting on my shelves waiting to be read.
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