Rob Cowen is an award-winning writer, hailed as one of the UK’s most original voices on nature, place and people. His first book, Skimming Stones, won the Roger Deakin Award from the Society of Authors. His second book, Common Ground (PRH; 2015) was shortlisted for the Portico, Richard Jefferies Society and Wainwright Prizes and voted one of the nation’s favourite nature books of all time in a BBC poll.
His follow-up, The Heeding (E&T; 2021), was the best-selling debut book of poetry in 2021. His latest book, The North Road (PRH; 2025) is released in April 2025. Rob was previously a journalist writing on nature and travel and he has contributed to the New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent and written radio programmes for the BBC. He lives in North Yorkshire.
Books in order of publication:
Skimming Stones – 2012
Common Ground (PRH; 2015)
The Heeding (E&T; 2021)
The North Road (PRH; 2025)
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