Rose Ferraby and Mark Edmonds – Stonework
_ Stonework grew out of a conversation between archaeologists Rose Ferraby and Mark Edmonds. We asked them to tell us a little about the thinking behind…
Poems from Heath by Penelope Shuttle and John Greening
These poems by Penelope Shuttle and John Greening respond to Hounslow Heath. From seventeenth-century paper mills and Chamberlain’s more recent ‘Munich Agreement’, to the Ordnance…
The Wet Desert – A Film by Max Smith and Ben Smith
Jack Thacker – Three Poems
The Musical Landscapes of Sam Richards
Three Ways of Looking at a Tree
Extracts from Undercurrents – Amanda Bell
This week we’re pleased to publish an extract from Amanda Bell’s Undercurrents: a psychogeography of Irish rivers in haiku and haibun. WHAT LIES BENEATH Since…
James Roberts – Three New Poems
The Longhouse Backlit by a flickering hearth each room is a stage applauding its audience. Silence twines speech into smoke-threads the talk of wool…
Watery Landscapes
APRIL: ALDEBURGH: WOODCUTS by Simon Turner i ———– (the eye un- oooooo hitched in the fog at the marsh’s edge where the tide’s…
Luke Thompson and Mairead Dunne: from ‘the clearing’
These four poems are from the clearing a forthcoming pamphlet written by LukeThompson, illustrated by Mairead Dunne and published by Atlantic Press. The pamphlet…
Alison Brackenbury: Three New Poems
USELESS Not a Victorian orchard tree which ladders wobbled round, no rose-red pippin, whose veined flesh old men in Kent once found, not Evesham’s young…
Oliver Rackham – What is the future for ash trees?
I dare not predict what will happen to ash. The recent cycle of Elm Disease is too uncomfortable a precedent. Who would have foreseen in 1970…
Alexandra Harris – In pursuit of Edward Thomas
Spring arrives in Britain from the southwest, and makes a slanting progress across the country at the pace of between one and two miles an hour.…
Jack Thacker – Three Poems
Jack Thacker grew up on a farm in Herefordshire. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Universities of Bristol and Exeter, researching contemporary British and…