
Will the Whales Inherit the Earth?
Rupert Read
7th April, 2021
For The Vanishing series, Rupert Read considers the future of human societies , following in the wake of whales. With artworks by Angela Cockayne.
‘The end of the world
as we know it
is not the end of the world
full stop.’
We are living in an age of loss: the sixth mass extinction. The Vanishing is a gathering of responses by writers and artists, not only to extinction – the deaths of entire species – but to the quieter extirpations, losses and disappearances that are steadily stripping our world of its complexity and beauty.
Our spring 2021 collection of prose, poetry and art revolves around the theme of death, loss and renewal