The Book of Delights, Ross Gay

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Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

The Book of Delights was released by Algonquin Books in 2019 and kindly donated to The Nature Library in 2020 by its UK publisher, Hodder & Stoughton. It brazenly welcomes the goodness that is around us and at this time of year more than ever, is one of those books that should always be to hand when you need a smile. Not a flimsy or forced one, but a genuine, involuntary, starts at the core of you smile.

You can read more of Ross Gay’s poetry and essays on his website and last year we particularly enjoyed this conversation with Kundiman, Cave Canem and Aimee Nezhukumatathil last autumn.

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