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Arran Stibbe – Ecolinguistics, 2nd edition – review by Anthony Nanson
Since its first publication in 2015, Arran Stibbe’s Ecolinguistics has been hugely influential in research in this field. The book’s...

Anthony Nanson
Jun 105 min read
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Heloise Speaks – a verse novel by Irina Kuzminsky – review by Diana Durham
Deftly folding in scholarship, historical names, and references without overloading the verse, Kuzminsky traces the 12th-century story of...

Diana Durham
Apr 114 min read
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Irina Kuzminsky – Heloise Speaks: A Verse Novel – review by Charlotte Hussey
What a contrast!! After agreeing to write this blog entry on Irina Kuzminsky’s Heloise Speaks: A Verse Novel , I rushed to my bookshelves...

Charlotte Hussey
Mar 8, 20236 min read
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Storytelling and Ecology: Empathy, Enchantment, and Emergence in the Use of Oral Narratives
Storytelling and Ecology, from Bloomsbury Academic, is my first academic monograph. The writing of it – the second draft in particular – was quite an intense experience, since it coincided with the first five months of the pandemic. The concept of 'lockdown' was for me...

Anthony Nanson
Sep 3, 20213 min read
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Labyrinth – a new collection of poems by Diana Durham
Three years ago I moved back to England (to Trowbridge, Wiltshire) after 24 years of living on the east coast of America. And I am very...

Diana Durham
Sep 2, 20212 min read
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Natural Words: An Anthology of Nature Poetry – review by Helen Moore
'Although nearly all these poems appear in print here for the first time, reading the eight voices included, all strikingly distinct,...

Helen Moore
Feb 25, 20212 min read
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A History of Discovery and Exploration: The Search Begins – review by Anthony Nanson
I’ve been aware for a long time how the heroic age of discovery by European explorers, from the late 15th century onwards, raised the curtain for the imperialist conquest and exploitation of the populations and territories of other countries. But ...

Anthony Nanson
Dec 13, 20202 min read
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Diana Durham – Coherent Self, Coherent World – review by Anthony Nanson
In a lecture called ‘Imagining Otherwise’, included in his book Green Man Dreaming (2018), Lindsay Clarke deploys a diagram of two intersecting circles to illustrate the relationship between our inner and outer worlds. The shape made by their overlap is

Anthony Nanson
Oct 2, 20193 min read
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Voyage Intemporel – Buddhism in space? – review by Anthony Nanson
You can’t say it’s not imaginative. Voyage Intemporel is an early BD (1982) of Sergio Macedo’s that depicts a realm of celestial beings who take an interest in the spiritual evolution of life on Earth and become alarmed when humankind

Anthony Nanson
Aug 14, 20192 min read
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Arran Stibbe – Ecolinguistics – review by Anthony Nanson
Arran Stibbe is the founder of the International Ecolinguistics Association. On this subject of ecolinguistics he, quite literally, wrote the book. The subject, and this superb book, is all about applying the tools of linguistics to the service of a

Anthony Nanson
Jul 7, 20193 min read
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