'Elegant and deeply sensory' Katherine May author of Wintering An exhilarating leap into
darkness in all its forms enchantments and history: the new work of non-fiction from
award-winning poet and writer Jean Sprackland Darkness can make the most ordinary activity
feel adventurous. Open a door and step through it. You can't see a thing: you could be
anywhere. Step over the threshold into the dark and feel your way. We humans have a
complicated relationship with the dark. We fear it and make great efforts to blot it out. But
we also long for it especially if we live in cities or remember the starry skies of our
childhoods. Darkness opens us up to risk delight and transformation. Is it possible to prise
it free of its negative associations which are as old as human thought itself? In her quest
for a new more intimate relationship with darkness acclaimed poet and writer Jean Sprackland
finds herself confronting some of the deepest - and darkest - questions about who we are and
our place in the world. Drawing on memory and imagination history and ecology literature and
myth Night Vision is an expansive thrilling journey into the true dark.
