Three new books
by Julia Blackburn

Dreaming the Karoo
In the spring of 2020, Julia Blackburn travelled to the Karoo region of South Africa to see for herself the ancestral lands that had once belonged to an indigenous group called the /Xam.
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Thoughts in a House
This spare and haunting book is all about associations: links between a writer and an artist who have known each other for a long time; accumulated bonds between people, animals and objects.
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The Wren
The Wren is not quite prose, not quite poetry, but is an incisive closely lived collection of reflections hewn from Blackburn's encounters and journals moving through ideas and seasons in rhythm with love, independence, life, death and the cry of a tawny owl.
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