creatures

Writer Salena Godden battles with snails and against the odds creates a jewel garden in the dark hour of the pandemic. Then learns that the voracious creatures were not in fact the enemy but her mysterious allies.

First in our archive month: Picnic with Sheep, an 'in the field' art project by Leonie van der Plas, chosen by Ava Osbiston, from spring 2016.

Last in our present series of Other Kingdoms we bring you Monique Besten's elegy on the black grouse of her native Netherlands from Issue 19.

In the first of three Other kingdoms posts, Jane Smith takes us on a Wounded Badger patrol into the English woods at night

For Dark Kitchen Max Jones follows the dairy herd into the Italian Alps and celebrates the sounds, rhythms and tastes of the ancient practice of transhumance

Laura  Coleman's heartbreaking story about the burial of a puma beside the forest river she loved.

For The Vanishing series, Rupert Read considers the future of human societies , following in the wake of whales. With artworks by Angela Cockayne.