Time Song by Julia Blackburn Mark Eisner Every quarter our expert Selectors

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Julie O'Callaghan

Damsi Figueroa

On our way we encounter a skiing Pohutukawa Tree

all three sequences chart ‘extreme experience with a dazzling excess’ (Deryn Rees-Jones)

Time Song by Julia Blackburn Mark Eisner Every quarter our expert SelectorsJulia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Time Song brings many such stories together as it tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country now called Doggerland, a huge and fertile area that once connected the entire east coast of England with mainland Europe,