Of Sea takes the form of a poetic bestiary of creatures living beneath, beside and above the water: in wetlands, salt marshes and the intertidal zone. In a sequence of 46 poems, Burnett captures the world of cockles and clams, rare moths and the humble earwig (to name a few) with a precise and dynamic lyric that seems always on the verge of music.
"Burnett is one of the UK's most original poets of the nonhuman world, and of our environmental moment. Innovative, dazzling, affecting poems that shimmer with intellectual acuity and emotional resonance." Rebecca Tamás

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is an author, academic

and founder of Grow Your Own Creativity. A writer

of English and Kenyan heritage, she was born in

Devon and her work is inspired by the landscape in

which she was raised. Her poetry has been highly

commended in the Forward Prize and Swims

was longlisted for the Laurel Prize and a Sunday

Times Poetry Book of the Year. She was selected

for the 2020 British Council/National Centre

for Writing International Literature Showcase

and leads the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust

project, Creative Writing and Climate Change: Moss,

Wetlands and Women (2018-20).