Writer and herbalist Frieda Kipar Bay tells of fleeing fire in California to follow the trail of migrating forests, in search of a safe haven for her family.
Steven Morgan journeys across the American wilderness to escape a raging inferno while battling an autoimmune disease, finding parallels between his porous body and this dying world.
Extract from our autumn Issue 20 – ABYSS: poets Bhanu Kapil and Claire Wahmanholm stand in the dark and bear witness to an enduring crown and collapsing glacier. With artwork by Basia Irland.
Two penetrating glimpses into the wild world in times of calamity: Rob Carney's juxtaposition of the poetic and the political observing a hawk and squirrel in the US; Samantha Clark's lockdown contemplation of loss and stillness by a loch on a grey day on Orkney.
Sharon English encounters a 'radiant spirit of the New Year' en route to the Humber River in Canada and contemplates the dark and solitary places we go to in times of descent.
Two writers contemplate the significance of steams in different territories: the Braamfontein Spruit in Johannesburg and the river Mel in Cambridgeshire.