The Lost Words, a book of poetry and paintings by Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane began as a response to certain vocabulary being dropped from the Oxford Junior Dictionary. It became a quiet yet powerful celebration of the trees, birds and animals that surround and sustain us. It was followed by a second book, ‘The Lost Spells’, and the Spell Songs project, on which the artist and poet collaborated with a carefully handpicked band of eight musicians (we’ll come to them in a bit). The slow burning popularity of the resultant first album, Spell Songs has no doubt been fuelled by a worldwide reconnection with the natural world. As lockdowns had us trading crowded nights out for solitary woodland walks to preserve our sanity, a newfound appreciation and fascination for these wild and delicate delights took hold and, for many, has refused to let go.