Internationally acclaimed poet David Whyte makes his home in the Pacific Northwest, where rain and changeable skies remind him of the other, more distant homes from which he comes: Yorkshire, Wales and Ireland. He holds a degree in Marine Zoology, honorary degrees from Neumann University in Pennsylvania and Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia, and is an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School at the University of Oxford. He is the author of eight volumes of poetry and four books of prose, as well as a collection of audio recordings.
Keep this book by your bedside forever. I know I will
*ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of EAT PRAY LOVE*
Consolations, it bears repeating, is an absolutely magnificent read
- the kind that reorients your world and remains a compass for a
lifetime
*MARIA POPOVA*
We think we know what we are talking about, the meaning of things,
the basic rules of language, until we read David Whyte's
Consolations where we are forced to reassess everything and begin
again. Such an essential and beautiful book'
*NICK CAVE*
A word can know you better than you know yourself and I did not
fully understand this until I read Consolations. It is an immensely
powerful book. It is an extraordinary book . . . You will want to
keep it forever
*LEMN SISSAY*
Sometimes a book you had never heard of resonates so profoundly
that it leaves you wondering how you hadn't come across it. This is
such a book, one that shakes you to the core and speaks to you in
an intimate aside, a considered whisper that echoes through your
days long after you turned the last page . . . Fully aware and
observant
* * The Lady * *
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