‘WANDE SHEBA: The First Maroon of Jamaica‘
This book gathers voices from around the world – from Cameroon to Mexico, from Portugal to Palestine, from Wales to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from Singapore to the leafy lanes of the Oxfordshire stockbroker-belt.The language of rights can be anthropocentric, couched in terms of ‘who owns what’ – but what happens when we flip such assumptions on their heads? Does the land belong to us, or do we belong to the land? What happens when we expand our perception beyond the human?
Editors: Nick Hunt, Anthea Lawson, and Adam Weymouth.
Silent in Sight – Circa 1640
This book is part map, part torch, part shadow. It is an invitation to join us in thinking differently about history: which stories make the cut, who is given permission to tell them, and how we might re-shape them. Inspired by a community theatre project investigating Bristol’s Ashton Court Estate, Haunting Ashton Court challenges prevailing historical narratives through writing, conversation and performance, and urges you to do the same.
‘Art, time, and place for everything in nature‘
The first of its kind, this invigorating exhibition book investigates the British landscape as a site of artistic inspiration, action and a heartland for ideas of freedom, mysticism, experimentation and rebellion. Contributions from campaigners, naturalists, environmentalists and social historians explore art in the age of the climate crisis.
Edited by Darren Pih and published by Tate Publishing.
Poems: Soiled/Unsoiled and Fern Ticket 1
Reading the Forest is a community project in the Forest of Dean. Led by local academics at the University of Gloucestershire with volunteers in the Forest of Dean, it has been funded by both the University, and the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and is part of the Foresters’ Forest landscape partnership.
Editors: Roger Deeks, Jason Griffiths.
‘Memories Live in the Forest’
This landmark anthology brings together the work of over a hundred women, from the fourteenth century to the present day, who have written about the natural world in Britain, Ireland and the outlying islands of our archipelago. Alongside the traditional forms of the travelogue – the walking guide, observations of birds, plants and wildlife – Women on Nature embraces alternative modes of seeing and recording that turn the genre on its head.
Edited by Katherine Norbury and published by Unbound.
‘Coming in from the Cold‘
The changing seasons of the year are an endless source of strangeness and wonder. Gifts of Gravity and Light invites you to experience Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter through fourteen different voices. Greet the arrival of spring in East London with a Cambodian new year’s dance; watch sea otters at play in the summer sun; gather armfuls of hops in a Romany song to the autumn; yield to the icy stillness of winter in the Cairngorms or pine for ‘sun drunk’ days of a Jamaican childhood.
Edited by Anita Roy, Pippa Marland and published by Hodder & Stoughton.
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‘An Elegy for Lignum Vitae (2022)’
The landscapes of Britain and Ireland, together with the creatures and plants that inhabit them, have penetrated deep in our collective imagination. From Gilbert White and Dorothy Wordsworth to Laurie Lee and Nan Shepherd, literature inspired by the natural world has become an integral part of our shared identity, and shaped our relationship with the islands we call home.
