Awen Publications

This beautiful collection of poetry centres on our earth as a living entity and on whose survival our own lives depend. Ramsay states in...

Mary Palmer performing poetry from her book ‘Iona’. Poetry at Saint Stephens ‘Tree House’ art group in the Saint Stephens Café in Bristol...

by Karen Eberhardt-Shelton I read, read, read informative books as my choice for the best way to be informed. What has grabbed me most...

<p>Originally posted on <a href="https://druidlife.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/in-search-of-the-ancient-dead">Druid Life</a>: <br />By ‘ancient dead’ I don’t mean the human ancient dead, who, by planet measurements of time are really quite recent. I grew up on the Jurassic limestone of the Cotswold edge. I guess it started&hellip;</p>

<p>Originally posted on <a href="https://druidlife.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/a-very-druid-apocalypse">Druid Life</a>: <br />One of the great things about being an author is the being able to kill people and never face any legal consequences. I expect I’m not the only person who looks around at the rest&hellip;</p>

“It’s 7 years since our friend Mary Palmer left us. She died from cancer a day after my birthday in 2009. We were both born in that most...

In the scary aftermath of the vote to leave the EU, some of the wiser souls I know have voiced the importance of standing together, of...

<p>I wanted to write something else about the EU referendum – or rather about one aspect of the consequences now unfolding at dizzying speed. How, though, to make that relevant to the focus of this blog? Well, when you stand &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/whats-the-story-to-get-to-a-better-society/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>I’ve sometimes wondered what it must be like to live in a time when you can see that your society is wilfully racing towards political disaster – war, say, or violent revolution, or fascist supremacy – and no appeal either &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/like-a-slow-motion-car-crash/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>There are not too many dinosaurs in Britain today, unless you count the birds. And as a kid with my animal books I was underwhelmed by the slender list of living reptiles this country boasts: three kinds of snake and &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/06/04/reptile-and-amphibian-memories/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>