Savour - hark
This is savour: notes on the delicious things in life, delivered every Wednesday. For £5.00 a month, you can upgrade your subscription to become a savour member. Receive all of my Wednesday essays as well as savourites, my Friday digest of things to read, eat and generally indulge in. savour members also gain access to members-only events. Your support makes good things happen. So, some news. I’ve a new book coming next Spring. It’s called Hark: How Women Listen, and it’s a story about sound and searching for meaning. It’s about what happens when you lose a sense of who you are, and try to connect all the different selves you may have been. It’s a book that I made when I was at my most broken, and it’s a book that I wrote to try and put those parts of me back together. Hark has taken me to the Arctic Circle in the 19th century, when people listened out for the unlikely crackle of the Aurora Borealis, and to the hulking, lonely monuments of the Sound Mirrors in Denge. I have delved into anechoic chambers and bathed in sound in the Mojave desert. More vitally, I have spoken with incredible women; translators who keep our country safe, Deaf performers who have changed how our creative landscape looks and octogenarian artists who are still wading into rivers to inhabit their sound. But this book is – and it still surprises me to acknowledge this – also my most personal work yet. I sold Hark four days before I gave birth, and now I have a toddler who can sing ‘Baby Shark’. And so perhaps it was always going to be a book about transitions; of what happens when society says your life is going to change, but you have no understanding of how. It is also a story that sets itself in hospital corridors and playgroups, in the lonely, half-light depths of the night and the strange illusions the mind can conjure. Recently, I was asked by my publisher to explain who the book was for. I tend to try and write with the reader out of the room, so to speak; I can only really engage with what I’m thinking and the words on the page, which is why it’s always a quiet amazement when people respond to what I write. But after some thought, I told them that Hark was a book for those who have been through a change in their life and not known how to feel afterwards. It’s a book for women who don’t feel heard. And it’s a book for people who want to listen better – to the world, to their loved ones and, crucially, to themselves. Hark, How Women Listen will be released on April 24, 2025, and it is very much available for pre-order now. I can’t overestimate how valuable pre-orders are to a book’s life - they decide everything from marketing budgets and how many copies a bookshop decides to stock to international translations and the chances of appearing on a bestseller’s list. In short, if you feel like Hark might be a book you’d like to read, ordering it now will make a massive difference - to it, and to me. If you’re a library user, you can request that your library pre-orders too! more on listeningYou’re a free subscriber to savour. If you enjoy my work, you can support it by becoming a paid subscriber. We can’t wait to have you along. |
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024
on the things you didn't know you'd missed ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
roses
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Jo Thompson: listen to the savour session ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
salt
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
(free to read) on seawater ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
another morning stretch
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
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voicenote
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
(free to read) on tiny intimacies ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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