Gigantic Cinema by Edited by Paul Keegan Edited by Alice Oswald

It is in very truth a sunny misty cloudy dazzling howling omniform Day... Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Sotheby 27 September 1802 This anthology of poems and prose ranges from literary weather Homers winds Ovids flood to scientific reportage whether Pliny on the eruption of Vesuvius or Victorian theories of the death of the sun. It includes imaginary as well as actual responses to what is transitory and reactions both formal and fleeting weather rhymes journals and jottings diaries Paperback softback