Notes from an islandIn the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunstrm, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietil, retreated there to live, paint and write, energised by the shifting seascapes and the island's austere rocky charms. Notes from an Island, written in 1996, is both a chronicle of

depicting Wales and the border areas of England from the 1940s to the 1970s

widowed mother

Over the centuries many things happened in that house

And she's caught in a poverty trap

'Next to Nature' invites us to witness a simple life richly lived

emerging as Player of the Series

and today's ecotourists in the tropics

that reality itself seemed to slip away

the storks and frogs

His boss chalks the violence up to the usual rivalries

a bigger question is at stake

This work includes new poems and work from seven collections published between 1984 and 1998