Time Song, Julia Blackburn
Time Song, Julia Blackburn
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Time Song
Searching for Doggerland

Author: Julia Blackburn

Narrator: Lisa Coleman

Unabridged: 11 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lisa Coleman

Published: 02/19/2026

Synopsis

Renowned author Julia Blackburn’s critically acclaimed book ‘Time Song: Searching for Doggerland’ has been recorded as an audiobook by actress Lisa Coleman. The 18 time song poems are sung to a backdrop of drone and nature sounds, a cross between spoken word and folk singing. Lisa experiments with the melody of speech to serve the meaning of the poems. With only the sounds of nature around them, how would our early ancestors’ songs have sounded?Doggerland is the area of land under the north sea that used to connect Britain to mainland Europe.Time song is a beautiful meditation on early human history, time and grief. It is a qualitative, deeply personal approach to ecology and palaeontology and explores the place of humans in our world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer on May 15, 2022

Timesong 18 Today is the anniversary Of your death And if today I were to write you a letter That you could read Even though you are dead and read nothing I would say I have been looking for you And I have not found you But I have found traces of your absence Alongside the other absences That rear up befor......more

Goodreads review by N on July 19, 2019

Time Song is Julia Blackburn's poetic and fascinating elegy to the lost 'country' of Doggerland, a massive swathe of land that linked Britain to Scandinavia and Europe before it disappeared below the rising waters of what would become the North Sea around 7000 years ago. I really enjoyed this unusual......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on October 04, 2019

I am unable to finish this book right now and may check it out again in the future. It yields interesting and new to me information on the lost land of Doggerland now under the North Sea. The information is organized in a random though poetic manner with poetry and art so it is very slow going (for......more

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