Rob Cowen
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Rob Cowen

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Rob Cowen is an award-winning writer and author. His 2012 debut Skimming Stones and Other Ways of Being in the Wild (Hodder) won the Roger Deakin Award from the Society of Authors. His second book, Common Ground (2015; RHP), has been hailed as a seminal and genre-defying work redefining writing on people and place. Common Ground was voted third in a 2018 poll to find Britain’s favourite nature book of all time, a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Times, The Express and The Independent, and ‘Top Ten Readers’ Choice’ in The Guardian. It was also shortlisted for the Wainwright, Portico and Richard Jefferies Society prizes. A nature and travel columnist at The Independent, Rob has contributed to the New York Times, The Guardian and The Telegraph and written essays and radio programmes for the BBC. His latest book 'The Heeding' (2021; E&T), is a moving, beautiful sequence of 35 poems, illustrated by Nick Hayes, that paints a picture of a year caught in the grip of history, yet filled with revelatory perspectives close at hand: a sparrowhawk hunting in a back street; the moon over a town with a loved-one's hand held tight; butterflies massing in a high-summer yard - the everyday wonders and memories that shape a life and help us recall our own. Already hailed as a 'masterpiece', The Heeding is a meditation on, and memorial to, a changing world. Rob lives in North Yorkshire in the UK.
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