I have just been sent the latest production by Hazel Press, a small independent press started during lockdown whose publications are only available by mail order or from the London Review Bookshop. This one is special. Photographs of leaves by Norman McBeath, a photographer based in Edinburgh, interpreted in short, suggestive haiku-like texts by Edmund de Waal. They will be exhibited at Zembla, a small private gallery in Hawick, in September. I wish I could make it to Hawick. Meanwhile, the little book is a beautiful substitute.
