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‘Pigeon Harp’ by Bibio & Dorian Concept. Answers by Bibio & Dorian Concept Taken from the beautiful collaborative album Answers, newly released on…
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The Medicine Tree
A rousing call to reach for the pitchforks, Nick Hayes’ ‘The Medicine Tree’ — our October Book of the Month – shows that community and land culture…
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Castles Built on Common Land: Nick Hayes, interviewed
‘Contrary to what the law might say, building a castle on common land doesn’t stop it being common land. Its past haunts its present’ writes Nick Hayes in his…
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The Lost Occult Books of Victor Neuburg
Victor Neuburg in haybales, West Sussex, early-1920s. Photo copyright Justin Hopper In 1924 the poet, publisher and occultist Victor Neuburg was visited by…
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The Book of Beasts
Elizabeth Sulis Kim’s ‘The Book of Beasts’ removes the distinctions between humans and animals, encouraging us to be less bordered, less exact…
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Underland heads for the Ivors
Huge congratulations to Hannah Peel, whose Underland score has been nominated for an Ivor Novello award! The winners will be revealed at The Ivors Composer…
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Book of the Month: October
Without a culture of reverence for our land, is it any wonder that it is ailing? ponders Nick Hayes, in an extract from ‘The Medicine Tree’, our…
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Underland Emerges
Happy CD release day to Hannah Peel’s Underland – out today on our Rivertones Label! Adapted from Robert Macfarlane’s bestselling book, directed by…
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Dartington Forest Garden Update
In March last year, we shared news of the Dartington Hall Trust’s intention to end the lease of The Agroforestry Research Trust’s groundbreaking 2…
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One Week to Underland
Just one week to go until Hannah Peel’s Underland soundtrack crawls out from beneath and hits the physical realm. Adapted from Robert Macfarlane’s…
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‘Real Magic’ by Star Moles. Highway to Hell by Star Moles Taken from the album Highway to Hell — released earlier this year on Dead Oceans, but…
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Autumn Ruins
Coco Lone Neal is reminded that endings are beginnings, as she walks the ruins of the Sheffield Ski Village. An early morning mist clings to the hillside and…
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Green Shoes
In an extract from ‘Green Shoes: Forty years of a radical women’s craft collective’, published this Thursday by The Indigo Press, Alison Hastie…
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Countdown to Underland
Just two weeks to go until the CD release of Hannah Peel’s Underland on our Rivertones label. Adapted from Robert Macfarlane’s bestselling book, directed…
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‘River Days’ by Natalie Wildgoose. Rural Tapes by Natalie Wildgoose A balm for the ears. Taken from the (lovely) album Rural Tapes, out now via…
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The Liminality of Boglands
Dead nor alive, safe nor dangerous, beautiful nor dreadful, bogs are thresholds that refuse categorisation, writes Merritt R. Turetsky, in an extract from her…
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Croft, Coast and Hill: Letters from the Northwest Highlands
Rainbows and tangled growth thread their way through uncertain weather on Annie Worsley and Kirsteen Bell’s respective crofts. South Erradale, September 12th…
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Heavenly Emissaries: Elizabeth Sulis Kim, interviewed
‘The Book of Beasts: Reclaiming Animal Wisdom’ is September Book of the Month. In this month’s author interview, Elizabeth Sulis Kim speaks to…
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Tweed River Festival 2026
Connecting Threads have just announced the second edition of the Tweed River Festival, an annual creative celebration of the River Tweed. Conceived as a…
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Book of the Month: September
September’s Book of the Month is Elizabeth Sulis Kim’s ‘Book of Beasts: Reclaiming Animal Wisdom’. Read an extract, on the infinite lives of…
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Sceapig Island
We were introduced to photographer Jess Bootes at our weekend event on the Isle of Sheppey earlier this year. As well as her fantastic photos of the Elmley…
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Wainwright Prize 2026
A dispatch from Paul Bursche, our man on the ground at this year’s Wainwright Prize ceremony. We were delighted to be at Thursday’s Wainwright…
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This [Ai]n’t the Way
AI-generated articles about nature are fundamentally at odds with what we’re doing here, writes a very tired site editor. A couple of weeks ago, an unsettling…
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‘Fairweather Friend’ by Sam Burton. Fairweather Friend by Sam Burton The title track (and second single we’re digging in a big way) from the…
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Clean enough to drink
Could you drink from your local river or stream? In an extract from his book ‘Unwilded’, Alastair Humphreys heads to his nearest river armed with a…
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A remembering
Ysella Sims revisits the moments — and personal ruptures — of a former life between the rivers Tavy and Tamar. This piece comes with a content warning for…
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Shorelines
August’s Book of the Month was Alycia Pirmohamed’s ‘Shorelines: Memory, migration and the selves we become’ — a book that is its own body of water, writes…
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Allotment Tapes Update
As Ben McElroy’s year-long audio project on Nottingham allotments continues, he has just announced the release of some limited-run physical cassettes. Tapes #1…
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Call of the wild
In ‘Down to Earth’, recently published by Wilton Square Books, Robert Ashton traces our evolving relationship with the soil. In the following…
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‘the garden’ by foot foot. PREY TIME by foot foot Taken from the EP ‘PREY TIME’, out 27th October on Memorials of Distinction.
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Elmley Sound Space
You can now listen back to talks and performances from our May event at Elmley Nature Reserve, thanks to Elmley’s newly launched Sound Space. Hear…
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Updates from the Underland
We are very pleased to announce details of the CD release of Hannah Peel’s original score for Underland — Robert Petit’s film based on the Robert…
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Time’s Mirror
Published today by The Bodley Head, Rachel Morley’s ‘Church Crawling’ is a kaleidoscopic history of place and community straight from its…
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Pleasures of… Summer
In addition to sending paid Steady subscribers monthly interviews with authors of our Books of the Month, once a quarter, we invite a different writer to share…
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A Manifesto for a Re-Enchanted Countryside
Free yourself from agricultural tyranny and propaganda, writes Sean Prentice. ‘Abbey Dore, old elm, 1923’ by Alfred Watkins, courtesy of…
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Scolt Head Island
In north Norfolk, Danny Adcock walks through the heart of the saltmarsh to reach Scolt Head Island — perhaps the same age as England itself. We’d left the car…
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‘Sister Fledge’ by Loula Yorke. Starling Sessions by LOULA YORKE Taken from the album Starling Sessions, out on 4th September. ‘Recorded in…
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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…