Finders Keepers (2016)

Shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award
Shortlisted for Best Collaboration Sabotage Awards

Finders Keepers is a collection of poems and full-colour illustrations themed around
Britain’s vanishing wildlife.

Bounteous, questing, high spirited yet melancholy-edged, Finders Keepers is a poetic field guide to Britain's vanishing wildlife - the fruits of a year-long project which has seen poet Harry Man and illustrator Sophie Gainsley geocaching their work in public spaces across the country to memorialise the many species that have been brought to the brink (and beyond) of extinction.

“In this distracted age, who even notices the dwindling of the High Brown Fritillary or River Lamprey? This book does the important work of paying attention, its poems and illustrations as strange and beautiful as the endangered species they bear witness to. Harry Man and Sophie Gainsley make it impossible to look away.”

Clare Pollard

The final book brings together a selection of the most playful and poignant poems from the project, arranged together with beautiful ink and watercolour images.