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A Stone Made of Circle: An Island Waybook is open for preorder through Humans & Nature Press! Written by Hannah Close, A Stone Made of Circle is a collection of encounters with islandness. It is also one way of answering the question: What is an island? Set in the Scottish Hebrides, this work of briny imagination moves across roiling Atlantic seas to the shore’s edge, where ancient seaweed spirits, airborne lighthouse keepers, fierce weather gods and living ancestors gather in the basaltic cracks of deep time, and where human and more-than-human lives are entwined. A Stone Made of Circle will be available in February and is now open for preorder.

Invitation to Listen: The Poetry of Plain, Air is also open for preorder through Humans & Nature Press! Invitation to Listen celebrates an interdisciplinary, multimedia collaboration among #1 New York Times bestselling author Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2018 Gugenheim Fellow and composer Tonia Ko, and three-time Grammy-nominated Spektral Quartet. In the spirit of a chapbook, this slim volume has emerged from multiple layers of listening. It represents a call and response, between people and place, between music and text. In Invitation to Listen, Robin Wall Kimmerer’s writing prompts us to slow down, connect, and take notice of our surroundings. Justin Neely’s translation of Kimmerer’s text into the Potawatomi language uplifts what Kimmerer has called “a grammar of animacy” and the original language of the landscape. Inside the book cover, a QR code directs readers to a recording of Plain, Air, composed by Tonia Ko and performed by Spektral Quartet, with Kimmerer’s reading of Invitation to Listen threaded through the movements of music. Invitation to Listen will be available in November and is now open for preorder.

Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature is also now available for order through Humans & Nature Press! From the mating calls of chorus frogs to insect olfaction to elephant funerary rites to the memory-rich tastes of place, Sensoria offers an immersion in the sensual experiences of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling—and their interactions, combinations, and more-than-human manifestations.