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No Nature Poems, Please

Rob Lewis
8th January, 2025
Our archive month continues with Rob Lewis's essay on nature poetry, from Issue 10.
ArchiveFrom the ArchiveIssue 10: Uncivilised Poetics

The Art of Psychoecology

Warren Draper
1st June, 2022
First of our watery posts this month, Warren Draper follows the currents of his homeland river Don in Yorkshire, and contemplates the radical act of immersion With music and video.
Place & TimeUncivilised Arts

The Poetics of Ecology

Hannah Close
23rd February, 2022
Becoming HumanConversations

The End of the End of Nature

Christy Rodgers
14th May, 2014
When we lose the concept of 'wilderness' we lose a part of ourselves. How can we get it back?
Dark Thoughts

Smock Frocks and Curlews

Wolfbird
17th June, 2012
I’d be friendly and polite, but secretly, these occasional people appeared like aliens to me....
Place & Time

Walking… Philosophy… Waking: A Reverie

Andrew Taggart
6th June, 2012
I was reading Rousseau’s wanderings when I fell into a reverie. I heard her whisper,...
Journeys

Elegy

Ian Hill
23rd May, 2012
  It is a long time since I have seen a live badger, my habits...
Other Kingdoms

The Narrow Orbit of Our Belonging

Ian Hill
3rd February, 2012
For what seems like some years now, he has taken to wandering the lanes around...
Place & Time

Man and the Natural World

Akshay Ahuja
12th January, 2012
I would give you some of the specifics, but unfortunately I have been realizing lately...
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