A review by shimmer
Marshland: Dreams and Nightmares on the Edge of London by Gareth E. Rees, Ada Jusic

5.0

I'm going to try to review this properly when I have a chance, but it's quite a book. Rees' cross-genre, hybrid approach of blending essays, stories, comics, and visual art (by Ada Jusic) is the perfect choice for a space that is never only one thing or another and a complicated hybrid itself. The book is smart, sometimes funny (including a magnificently delivered set piece joke about bloggers), richly descriptive, and deeply compelling. This is the kind of book I've been wanting to see more of from environmental writers, taking a place seriously in ALL its dimensions from the social to the artistic to the historical to the imaginative to the polluted.