Startling
Linda FranceAn almanac of writing and deep ecology – where they meet and what happens there – slow thoughts in a frenzied world.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 122 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 13 days ago |
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as if no one had ever tried before
At the end of last year, I chaired a discussion between poets Jemma Borg and Esther Vincent Xueming called Poetry, Planet and Presence. As part of the National Centre for Writing at Norwich’s International Residency Programme, I’d been havi...
Flowers, flowers
More from my Birch Sutra-in progress, prompted by a few weeks spent with David George Haskell’s brilliant How Flowers Made Our World – The Story of Nature’s Revolutionaries, listening to it as an audiobook alongside the world burgeoning bef...
Poetry & Pollination
pollen (n.)
1760, as a botanical term for the fine, yellowish dust that is the fertilising element of flowers (from Linnaeus 1751); earlier ‘fine flour’ (1520s), from Latin pollen ‘mill dust, fine flour’, which is related to polenta ‘peele...
Curlew Moon
Mark Butler is a sculptor, rooted in Yorkshire, whose practice addresses ecology and sustainability in its concerns, its materials and its methods. You can read more about this side of his work, as well as his many and varied activities, on...
Giving life
...back to life
After the Eco-Sonnet Chain, I curated and co-edited with Bill Herbert, some of you might remember me writing about here, comes the Art Sonnet Chain, co-edited by dream team Nancy Campbell and Sophie Herxheimer (+ wingmen Bi...
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Poet: 10 collections since 1992, currently working on 11th, writing here about the creative process & deep ecology – Laurel Prize, Environmental Poet of the Year 2022-23 Michael Marks Awards, FRSL
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