If you're in Edinburgh over the next six or seven weeks, do visit The Lost Words exhibition at Inverleith House in the Royal Botanic Garden.
I'm sure you're already familiar with the book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris which "celebrates the relationship between language and the living world". A fair number of its artworks are included in the show, each subject being treated in three ways: an "absence", an icon, and a contextual piece, showing "things that are missing and things that are hidden, [...] absences and appearances". Run your tongue around the "spells" and linger on the images, but if - like me - you are unnerved by large pictures of certain birds (magpie and raven, for instance), you should be fine enough in the gallery but turn the book's pages with care!
