The Making: A Poem

by Brian Day

The Making retells the universe through science and story, tracing the arc of the cosmos from its origin to the present. The poem recounts the early transformations of the universe, the emergence and development of life on Earth, and the broad span of human history, pairing each new phase with a story—stories drawn from Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as from North American Indigenous traditions, Greek myth, and international creation tales and folktales. Coaxing science and history into evocative language while braiding them with tales, the poem sets a human perspective on the pageant of the cosmos and provides an unprecedented synthesis of evolutionary history with literary and religious imagination. The Making is a lyrical and pluralistic creation story of epic scope—a story that illuminates our time of planetary crisis and imagines ways we might press forward.

174 pages, Paperback

Published February 23, 2024

About the author

Brain Day has spent a lifetime advocating for nature and learning about languages, music, crafts, history, stories and cultures across the world. He has written a number of non-fiction books including The Celtic Calendar, A Chronicle of Folk Customs, Chronicle of Celtic Folk Customs and The Modern Pagan.

An Affinity of Apes is his first novel. For more information, visit https://moongazerpress.news.blog.

Brian lives in Sussex (UK) and can be found giving wildlife walks on bats, butterflies, mushrooms and how to make your garden more friendly to British wildlife.