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Night Vision
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  • Published: 6 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529934311
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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Night Vision

In search of the true dark

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Hardback
10 Feb 2026
EBook
6 Nov 2025
Audiobook
6 Nov 2025
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An exhilarating leap into darkness in all its forms, enchantments and history: the new work of non-fiction from award-winning poet and writer Jean Sprackland

‘An elegant and deeply sensory exploration of darkness in all its forms’ Katherine May, author of Wintering

An exhilarating leap into darkness: the new work of non-fiction from award-winning poet and writer Jean Sprackland

In her search for a new, more intimate relationship with darkness, acclaimed poet and writer Jean Sprackland confronts some of the deepest – and darkest – questions about who we are and our place in the world.

With glimmering prose that draws on memory and imagination, history and ecology, literature and myth, Night Vision is an expansive, thrilling journey into the true dark.

‘Stylish and crammed with memorable details’ Robert Crawford, author of Old World

'In this lyrical series of essays, Jean Sprackland falls in love with the dark... Evocative and ambitious' Irish Times
  • Published: 6 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529934311
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
Categories:

About the author

Jean Sprackland

Jean Sprackland is the author of five poetry collections, including Tilt, which won the 2007 Costa Poetry Award. She has also published two works of non-fiction, Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach, which won the 2012 Portico Prize, and These Silent Mansions: A Life in Graveyards in 2020. Her forthcoming titles are Night Vision, a non-fiction exploration of darkness, in November 2025, and Goyle, Chert, Mire, her latest poetry collection, in April 2026.
portrait photo of Jean Sprackland

Also by Jean Sprackland

Goyle, Chert, Mire
These Silent Mansions
Green Noise
Sleeping Keys
Strands
Tilt
Hard Water
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Praise for Night Vision

An intimate, questing, and deeply moving collection of nocturnal encounters, Jean Sprackland’s Night Vision is a stellar polyphony of vespertine voice and story. Illuminating and lyrical, equal parts uncanny and comforting, but always curious and humane, this book is essential reading for anybody wishing to become better acquainted with the night.

Dan Richards, author of OVERNIGHT

Stylish and crammed with memorable details, Night Vision is the most lucid book about darkness you will ever read.

Robert Crawford, author of OLD WORLD

An elegant and deeply sensory exploration of darkness in all its forms

Katherine May, author of WINTERING

In this lyrical series of essays, Jean Sprackland falls in love with the dark... An evocative and ambitious study of a state that makes up half of human experience.

Irish Times

Evocative and intimate… [Sprackland] invite[s] us to step outside, switch off the lights and make peace with the night again

Times Literary Supplement