Go just three days without water, and your body is in serious trouble. We
need the stuff, and not just for physical sustenance. Fresh water provides us
with “metaphor, power and enchantment”, as The River’s Voice,
a collection of more than 180 poems from both sides of the Atlantic, so
beautifully reminds us.
Chosen by Angela King and Susan Clifford, founder directors of the
arts/environment charity Common Ground, this book makes you wonder anew why we
treat our rivers and streams so abominably. It reminds us that rivers matter,
not least because “their fate is intricately intertwined with
ours—naturally and…
