Wallace Heim, editor of the Ashden Directory and Ashdenizen Blog for 20 years, has reviewed two books, documenting art science collaborations focused on environments. Imagining Natural Scotland is the publication associated with a programme for the Year of Natural Scotland. Creative Scotland working with Scottish Natural Heritage and other partners put out a call for... Continue Reading →
David Borthwick: Review of Estuary, by Lydia Fulleylove, with artwork by Colin Riches
David Borthwick, who runs the University of Glasgow's masters programme Environment, Culture and Communication at the university's Dumfries Campus, reviews Lydia Fulleylove's Estuary, a new book of poems published by the excellent Two Ravens. Estuaries are, as in the title of one of Raymond Carver’s stories, ‘where water comes together with other water,’ fresh into salt,... Continue Reading →
Mandy Haggith, ed., Into the Forest: An Anthology of Tree Poems (Glasgow: Saraband, 2013), pp. 280. Into the Forest, cover image by Carry Ackroyd (by permission Saraband) An early linkage between literature and ecology in the recent revival of nature writing, Kim Taplan’s book Tongues in Trees (1989) investigated the connection between humans and woodland,... Continue Reading →
David Borthwick: Footings and Entanglements
Dave Borthwick highlights two new books of poetry. Entanglements is an anthology for which Dave wrote the Introduction, and includes work by amongst others Alec Finlay, Gerry Loose, Em Strang and Jim Carruth. You can find out more and order from Two Ravens Press. Footings is a new collection of specially commissioned poems focused on... Continue Reading →
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