For this week’s #ThursdayBooksandBeer I’m reading Department of the Vanishing by Johanna Bell, a unique assemblage of archival images, documentary poetry and narrative. It’s accompanied by a ‘Summer Breeze’ Hazy Pale Ale from the team at Gales, because you need something to stave off the despair in this time of extinction. “On my first day / they gave me a list / 24 species / their Latin names / descending the page / I saw the mark / they made / for all the birds / already / gone” #reading #literature #poetry #extinction #craftbeer