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Belonging as Burden: Alycia Pirmohamed, interviewed
August’s Book of the Month has been Alycia Pirmohamed’s ‘Shorelines: Memory, migration and the selves we become’. In this month’s author interview…
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LandxSea Film Festival
Taking place at the community-owned Montrose Playhouse from 11–13 September, this year’s LandxSea Film Festival will bring together 22 films and a packed…
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Peckerwood: Field notes from a feral’d garden
Swifts scream joy like fairground goers over Mark Mattock’s “feral’d” NW2 garden. Just for one day …in May Morning is breaking, otherworldly and familiar…
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Lichen, Moss and Bone – Tendernesses
Kirsteen McNish chases hope, as her herbs cry out for rain. I recently learnt to drive, something I never wanted or thought I would be able to do. We can no…
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‘When The Cranes’ by Nina Winder-Lind. Wild Love by Nina Winder-Lind Taken from the album Wild Love, out now on Transgressive. “The kind of…
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Book of the Month: August
Published last week by Canongate, August’s Book of the Month is Alycia Pirmohamed’s ‘Shorelines: Memory, migration and the selves we become’…
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The Ecological Listening Project
The Ecological Listening Project, an initiative of River Margin, is looking for audio submissions of recordings from around the world capturing how the natural…
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New in the Shop
Two delicious zines by The Slow Grind. ‘Storms Aren’t Sexy’ is an A6 Risograph 3-colour zine produced collaboratively by PageMasters &…
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Another world is possible
Gwydion’s Garden — Hebden Bridge’s newest shop for old books — is a treasure trove of all things green, earthy and countercultural. Here…
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A Thrill of Gratitude
Spurred on by Nabokov, Sue Brooks seeks the company of a favourite butterfly. July’s pleasures came early this year on account of the heat wave…
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41 Weeks
A poem by Saskia McCracken. Beneath blackberries heavy as planets a slug slopes among the nettles, at the same aching pace as me, where to? Gentle eye stalks…
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‘Lighthouse’ by Lau Ro. Lau by Lau Ro Taken from the (totally beautiful) album Lau, out now on Mexican Summer, and on constant repeat on the…
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The Dust Devil
Menace awaits Mark Hooper in a Kentish field. At the brow of the hill I paused on the road, leaning on a five-bar metal gate to look back across the fields…
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Ghost Egret
A poem by Will Burns. Looking through itself at the stickleback shadow play below the surface. Though perhaps (a schoolboy reflex) it’s just staring at its…
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‘Furlongs 1’ by Gilroy Mere. Furlongs by Gilroy Mere Taken from the album Furlongs, out on Clay Pipe Music in September. Since his 2023 album…
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Small, Earth-Bound Attention: Jenny Chamarette, interviewed
Book of the Month for July was Jenny Chamarette’s ‘Q is for Garden: Tending the histories of queer cultivation’. In our latest author Q&A…
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Words, weeds and wildfires: the violence of our mother tongue
Blue Kirkhope unpicks how the English language can be a catalyst for the climate crisis. A vibrant Maidenhair Spleenwort fern protruding from a wall in Glasgow…
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Croft, Coast and Hill: Letters from the Northwest Highlands
Summer brings moonwort and sea thrift, rain and flame to the Highlands, as Kirsteen Bell and Annie Worsley look for symbols of hope on their crofts. June 24th…
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A Photographic Friendship
Opening this Saturday 1st August at The Burton, Bideford, Devon, A Photographic Friendship: James Ravilious and Chris Chapman celebrates the remarkable…
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Q is for Garden
Jenny Chamarette’s ‘Q is for Garden’ — our July Book of the Month — offers connections between queerness and the soil that Kate Bradbury…
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A Grand Tour of Britain’s Uplands Across Epochs
Published earlier this month by Bodley Head, Ed Douglas’ big book of mountains breathes living history into immortal landscapes, writes Eben Myrddin Muse…
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Like a Snow Hill in the Air
Like a Snow Hill in the Air, a new photo-and-music project by Carl Bigmore, is now available to preorder from Another Place Press. The artist writes…
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‘Down To The River’ by Peter Rogers and Laura Cannell. The Given World by Peter Rogers and Laura Cannell Taken from the collaborative album The…
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Books of the Year So Far
Since we’re now (somehow) past the year’s half-way point, we thought we’d recap our first 6 Books of the Month of 2026. Need to buy a fellow…
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New in the Shop
Lichen: A Beginner’s Guide to the Lichens of the World by Rob Hodgson. Discover 18 common lichens hiding on trees, rocks, walls, and pavements — if you…
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Tastykakes, Soul Songs & Shining Stars
Recently published by ZE Books, ‘Tastykakes, Soul Songs and Shining Stars’ is a rich and passionate record of a life-long obsession with soul music…
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Caught by the Reaper: Brian Case
Jeff Barrett writes: We were saddened to hear of the death this week of Brian Case. It came our way via Richard Williams and his blog The Blue Moment (that’s…
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Boomerang Process
Recently published by TNC Books, Roy’s ‘Boomerang Process’ is full of the extraordinariness and unpredictability of human existence, writes Wendy…
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‘Rock Island Line’ by Jake Xerxes Fussell. The Old Beloved Path by Jake Xerxes Fussell Taken from the album The Old Beloved Path, upcoming on Fat…
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DATA VS NATURE
What does The Animals of Farthing Wood’s displacement tale look like in the age of AI? Abi Andrews considers animal sentience, the data centre deluge…
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Re-Wilding and Re-Childing Time with Rebecca Tamás
Contributing editor Tallulah Brennan talks to ‘Book of Mysteries’ author Rebecca Tamás about wild time, children as animists, what kinds of seasons…
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Seeking new subscribers!
A once-in-a-while reminder of our paid subscriber offering, which is crucial to continued running of the site. We know lots of media companies — and not just…
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A Little Film About Little Libraries
Thank you to Mike Gavin for recently getting in touch to share a lovely short film about Little Libraries in south east London. Made by Beowulf…
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Book of the Month: July
July’s Book of the Month is Jenny Chamarette’s ‘Q is for Garden: Tending the histories of queer cultivation’ — a bold, tender exploration of…
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‘Move Your Body (Greater Horseshoe Bat)’ by Hanna Tuulikki and Tommy Perman. Inspired by the melodic, bubbly warbles of the Greater horseshoe bat…
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Everywhere You Go: Photography, Petrol and Pests at OmVed Gardens
Contributing editor Tallulah Brennan heads to North London’s OmVed Gardens to take in Hannah Fletcher’s ‘Photo.Petro.Chemical.Capital’…
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High Speed 1
A poem by Will Burns. We passed through the flattest country— the very middle, most inland of it all. We went practically nowhere at previously impossible…
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alive, alive oh
Claire Todd introduces her new audiovisual piece about standing deadwood. alive, alive oh is an observational piece which challenges our concept of idyll by…
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SAVING PUBLIC TELEPHONY
Photographic artist William Arnold is embarking on a mission to SAVE PUBLIC TELEPHONY by making a 1700-mile round-trip from Cornwall to place 52 calls from a…
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Safe Harbours: Natasha Carthew, interviewed
June’s Book of the Month has been Natasha Carthew’s ‘Rough Edges’, which centres on the untold stories of Britain’s coastline communities. In this…