wild writing
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Nature Notes
Wild Writing. Three lovely women join me for a Wild Writing Workshop at BBOWT’s Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre. We discuss ‘the new nature writing’, its ancient roots and tradition; its resurgence and the reasons (and need) for it. And we try to define something that, in its wild essence, defies catagorisation. But we come up […]
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Nature Notes
A Raven King. At the foot of the down, below the double gibbet that has stood in several incarnations since 1676, is a dead raven. Both wings are folded demurely across its breast and belly, crossing at the tips as if it were a dark angel, its head lowered on its breast in repose. The friend […]
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Nature Notes
Wild Children, Wild Words. It is a truth that ought to be universally acknowledged, that kids need nature and nature needs kids – otherwise, it’ll be the end of us all. And although I’ve heard things from children that alarm me (what’s a cuckoo? how do badgers swim underwater?) there is plenty to gladden the […]