Seventy-Two Seasons

A Memoir About Noticing

By M.A.C. Farrant

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NATURE

200 Pages, 5 x 8

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $22.95 (US $22.95)

Publication Date: May 2026

ISBN 9781553807438

Rights: WOR X CA

Ronsdale Press (May 2026)

Price:	$22.95

Overview

Finding profound moments in the natural world, M.A.C. Farrant offers an antidote to the distractions and pressures of modern life. Inspired by the Japanese practice of celebrating one feature in nature every five days, creating seventy-two seasons instead of four, Farrant embarks on a year-long mission to focus her attention on the small spellbinding changes around her. With her signature humour, she skilfully blends observations, meditations, literary references, memoir, essay-ettes and arcane facts as she explores the natural world. From homely weeds to majestic trees and the animals that cross her path, Farrant shares her deep noticing of the changes of the seasons and along the way we learn with her how to slow down and experience the world with awe and wonder.

Reviews

“M.A.C. Farrant names the world for us in such a way that the ordinary becomes profound and the profound ordinary. Each chapter in the book becomes an opportunity to land, as if for the first time, on earth. Savour each of them.” —Eve Joseph, Author of In the Slender Margin

“M.A.C. Farrant can somehow see the forest and the trees, able to articulate the wider narrative and the smallest detail, and with such wonderful ease. When I grow up, I hope to write even half as well.” —Rob McLennan, Author of On Beauty: stories

“Farrant’s beautiful sentences, as always, are testaments to curiosity and to possibility. Throughout these seventy-two ‘deep breaths,’ we marvel with pleasure at Farrant’s marvelling.” —Stuart Ross, Author of The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

Author Biography

M.A.C. Farrant is well-known for her acerbic wit and laugh-out-loud humour. She has been writing and publishing since the 1980s including 20 works of fiction, non-fiction and memoir; two produced plays, countless book reviews for the Vancouver Sun and The Globe & Mail; and over a dozen chapbooks. Her 2021 non-fiction book, One Good Thing, was a BC Bestseller. Farrant has won the Victoria Book Prize and her books have been nominated for numerous awards including the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, Ethel Wilson fiction prize, ReLit Award, and the Van City Book Prize.

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