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A Year in Kingcombe by Anita Roy: February
When I squatted down for a closer look, it revealed itself to be not stone but bone: the skull of a small mammal, the filigree of bone exposed on the underside, half a jaw, with a good set of teeth, lying separately. Hans Holbein couldn’t have devised it more perfectly: shift your angle just a little, look at something askance, and there’s a death’s head grinning back at you.
February 26, 2018
Diary
Black Apples by Andrew Kotting
Black Apples is inspired by Iain Sinclair’s Black Apples of Gower. It was made in collaboration with Iain Sinclair and Anonymous Bosch with music by Buster Grey-Jung.
February 15, 2018
Film, The Clearing
A Sense of Wonder by Philip Hoare
‘We no longer camp as for a night’, the American philosopher, Henry David Thoreau wrote, ‘but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven’. Philip Hoare on reconnecting to the earth, the sea and the tangible universe.
February 5, 2018
Essay
To Cradle a Moth by Abi Andrews
“In its light I know where the world is.” A powerful piece by Abi Andrews on our ‘small communions’ with the natural world.
January 29, 2018
Essay
An Interview with Abi Andrews
An interview with Abi Andrews, the author of the outstanding debut novel, The Word for Woman is Wilderness.
January 29, 2018
Podcast
A Wolf Among Wolves
People become wolves in Daniel Warren’s brilliant short film about woodland regeneration.
January 25, 2018
Film, The Clearing
A Year in Kingcombe by Anita Roy: January
Kingcombe is a quietly enchanting place. The people are few, the cars are fewer and the wild world is left largely to its own devices.
January 22, 2018
Diary, The Clearing
A poem by Stephen Watts
Stephen Watts has published numerous collections, including ‘Ancient Sunlight’ (2014) and Republic of Dogs / Republic of Birds (2016).
January 8, 2018
Poetry, The Clearing
An Interview with Stephen Watts
Stephen Watts is a poet and translator based in East London. He has published numerous collections of poetry, including Mountain Language: Lingua di Montagne (translated by Cristina Viti, 2009) and Ancient Sunlight (2014), and the prose work Republic…
January 8, 2018
Poetry, The Clearing
New poems from David Troupes, Katherine Robinson and Robert Okaji
‘Some seeds are buried, others scattered.’ Poems by three American poets on landscapes close to their heart. Indian Brook by David Troupes A looking glass—a black gutter hurrying the…
December 11, 2017
Poetry, The Clearing
‘Bearing Witness’: Reflections on the Launch of the UK’s Favourite Nature Books Poll by Pippa Marland
Some of the most popular and respected nature writers in the UK have been helping us to launch the Land Lines public poll to find the UK’s favourite books about nature: Mark…
November 27, 2017
Essay, The Clearing
‘Land Lines: Modern British Nature Writing, 1789-2014’
Professor Graham Huggan and members of the Land Lines research team introduce the project. Recent years have seen a boom in nature writing, with the publication of hugely popular books by authors…
November 21, 2017
Essay, The Clearing