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<p>At the opening of the current Fringe Arts Bath exhibition at 8/9 New Bond Street Place, Bath, I saw – and heard – Alun Ward’s new sound installation, Sea Hear. It sparked in my mind a set of associations about &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/speaking-stones/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>On Thursday – 21 May – I was in Waterstones, Bath, with Martin Large from Hawthorn Press and poet Helen Moore to promote Helen’s new collection, ECOZOA, and my novel, Deep Time. Chairing the readings and discussion was ecocritic Richard &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/wine-and-waterstones/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Originally posted on <a href="https://thebardicacademic.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/deep-time-deep-love">Dr Kevan Manwaring </a>: <br />Saturday 9th May: Deep Time launch, Stroud Saturday saw the culmination of a lifetime’s obsession – the publication of my friend Anthony Nanson’s first novel, Deep Time. This 300 thousand plus word magnum opus Nanson&hellip;</p>

<p>Just this once, here&#8217;s a photo of me. It was taken at my party in Stroud last Saturday night to celebrate my fiftieth birthday and the publication of Deep Time. The dress code was ‘tropical’. It was delightful to see &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/party-and-publication/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>‘Just imagine the world without … [insert brand]!’ Today, our capacity to imagine is frequently coopted, with advertising endlessly fuelling our sense of ourselves as consumers, rather than citizens of this Earth community. Industrial growth society systematically reinforces ‘monocultures of &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/celebrating-the-radical-imagination-guest-post-by-helen-moore/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span><

<p>Helen Moore and I will be at Waterstones Bath on Thursday 21 May to celebrate the publication of our new books: Helen’s acclaimed poetry collection, ECOZOA, and my novel of prehistory, Deep Time. There will be introductions by Richard Kerridge, &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/deep-time-and-ecozoa-launch-in-bath-on-21-may/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>A particular kind of science fiction converges with green aspirations in ‘future primitive’ visions of a future society less dominated by technology. There are positive and negative versions of this kind of future – and positive and negative pathways to &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/future-primitive/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Deep Time is a quite erotic novel, not just in the obvious sense – though there is some of that – but also in a broader sense, loosely from Plato, of ‘eros’ as an impulse towards beauty and ultimately towards &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/loincloths-and-fur-bikinis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>I first came across the phrase ‘deep time’ in a pair of books I copy-edited for the Geological Society in 1998. I realised at once that Deep Time had to be the title of the novel I’d recently started writing. &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/the-origin-of-deep-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>It was on a geological field trip to Arran in 1984 that I first expressed to anyone a sense of loss I felt in connection with my awareness of the vastness of deep time. This became part of my motivation &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/time-and-loss-and-imagining/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>