The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin Laure Severac Leah Barclay

Leah Barclay

Chillpiq & Qyrq Qyz 2018)

author of The Argonauts ‘An arresting

and art is not marginalized

Allison Ford

The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin Laure Severac Leah BarclayWhen Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new story, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World presents a selection of these images by the celebrated author, many of which have never been published before, to consider how her imaginary worlds enable us to re envision our own.  Le Guins maps offer journeys of consciousness beyond conventional cartography, from the Rorschach like archipelagos of Earthsea to the talismanic maps of Always