Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks is much-coveted; though newly published, it feels entrenched in the nature-writing canon already. From the exquisite cover and fine end-papers on, it should be owned by all lovers of landscape and language. Perhaps that is as far as Landmarks can, and should, be categorised. Macfarlane’s prose-poetic text calls for “a decentred eye Read More
Our attempts to understand the nature of forgiveness often involve making distinctions by degrees. Forgiving someone for being late for an appointment seems simple compared to an accident when bodily harm has been caused. Making these kinds of distinctions provides us with a better sense of when forgiveness can be offered. But what if making Read More
“My mission is to change the world through fashion, make products as ethically and as environmentally as possible, with the best supply chain, the best social, environmental and cultural impact, alleviating poverty, and preserving traditional skills” An insightful and passionate talk about the changing ethical and political landscape of fashion, and her role in promoting Read More
This is an edited transcript with headings inserted for ease of reading and navigation. The video of the interview can be accessed by clicking the above image. Lindsay: Well, welcome everybody and it’s a great pleasure to introduce Nell Nelson here today from Happenstance Press. Nell’s a local publisher but also a poet and performer Read More
We all need advice. It is one of the universal truths in life that, at some point, perhaps at every point, we need advice. It is an unequivocal part of the human condition, a condition Kurt Vonnegut understood very well. Sometimes the most difficult thing in the world is to ask for help and advice. Read More
I have been reading Debasish Lahiri’s’s poetry over the past few years. He has sent me his poems in a steady stream from Kolkata where he lives and writes, and from his various journeys both East and West and I have been struck by their many-layered intensity. It is therefore a pleasure to see his Read More
“I’ve said on many occasions that if a poem, once written, is exactly the same as its author first imagined it would be, then it is almost certainly a failure, and that artistic success must always involve a process of transformation.” This is Simon Armitage reflecting on the “almost electrically bright” Snow Stone poem’s lettering Read More
Reliquiæ is an annual little magazine of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, translations and visual art.Volume Two’s deep-green cover asks the reader to connect the book with “A tree, a rock, an embedded boulder, a ruin, a body, a hand, a passage” before opening it. These are not clearly linked objects: you can enter a ruin, Read More
Approaching his death in 1782, the “Father of Military Medicine” Sir John Pringle deposited his papers in the library of the Royal College of Physicians, taking legal measures to prevent their contents being published. After two centuries and multiple attempts, these restrictions finally been set aside, providing the basis for Morrice McCrae’s biography of the Read More
Do you still look under your bed, checking to see if the monsters are asleep? Does the wardrobe give you a sense of foreboding, harbouring, as it must all manner of things that go bump in the night? Perhaps they all come from the woods outside your home. Canadian writer and artist Emily Carroll is Read More