Writer. @GndCountryDiary @TheTLS. Commissioning ed @hazel_press. Writing book about Hope Bourne of Exmoor
Dorset/Exmoor
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Three new titles out now from Hazel Press: poems by @wordcurlz and Maria Isakova Bennett, plus a Hazel Press Catkin by Anna de Waal. Available to order from the Hazel website hazelpress.co.uk/bookshop/
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Sara Hudston (@islomane) on how horses have shaped the English countryside
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'Experiencing the living world alongside his children brings him into contact with an unsophisticated, more instinctual approach, one that seldom starts with “ooh, that’s lovely”, but often begins with “whoa, that’s gross”.' (@islomane) the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-j…
What made us in the woods so late? While @KatrinaNaomi channeled her inner Dorothy Wordsworth, I had a go at summoning Coleridge in ‘Christabel’ mode
A new venture with @hazel_press & @islomane in which I get to channel my inner Dorothy (Wordsworth). There are 50 copies for sale. Read excerpts here 💚💚💚hazelpress.substack.com/p/ha…
Tens of thousands of foxgloves the colour of the earth are flowering in Doverhay Wood, where a conifer plantation was cleared. It already looks so different from when I wrote about it in November last year theguardian.com/environment/…
Country diary: A healthy population of rare caterpillars and a republican goldcrest. Plus mention of @savebutterflies work on Exmoor
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'Online music stores offer hundreds of contemporary recordings of humpback whale 'music' for our relaxation. All of them, Haskell notes, have been edited to 'omit the blare and cacophony of the lived experience of real whales'.' (@islomane)
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Dorset nightjars and more in my review of Sounds Wild and Broken by David George Haskell in this week's @TheTLS
This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @tylercowen on long- vs short-termism; @ecshowalter on Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor; @NickHoldstock on Wang Xiaobo; @BenBollig on Sergio Raimondi; @islomane on noise pollution – and more
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Our latest newsletter - featuring poetry by @IBoffa, the @Soc_of_Authors #TreeToMe initiative with 10 questions to ask publishers about their eco-footprint, @ruthpadel on The Verb and a photo by @exmoormare of the youngest Hazel on Exmoor
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Shapes and colours: fox moth caterpillar just emerged from hibernation on the moor and fallen poplar catkins in Porlock
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Can citizens' assemblies save the planet?
The Guardian's @islomane was surprised to be randomly selected to apply for one drafting a #PeoplesPlanforNature, launched yesterday.
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Her fascinating write up from the inside: theguardian.com/environment/…
Spirit for the day
A possible Iron Age deity for #FindsFriday
This gorgeous Romano-British copper alloy horse-and-rider brooch with red, blue and white enamel inlay was collected by Henry Durden (1807-1892) from Woodyates #Dorset
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"Once I found myself in an expensively renovated living room where the new architects had preserved the old bullet holes under glass as a conversation point." @Susanna_Forrest on whether to skim the surface, or take root in a changing Berlin
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A UK citizen’s assembly on nature gives us hope, but can we really change? We need to, urgently #PeoplesPlanforNature theguardian.com/environment/…
What makes a fountain? And even more puzzling, what makes it holy? Writing about the Exmoor spring that is neither holy nor a fountain, but is often regarded as both theguardian.com/environment/…
The frost performs its secret ministry... I love this reading of Coleridge's poem at the start of this video from @alfoxton_park youtu.be/vMnioVjtBxE