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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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Merlin and the Making of Stonehenge
The archaeologists have their ideas about how and why Stonehenge was built. The annals of legend have another story, one that involves Merlin the magician plus the uncle and father of King Arthur...

Anthony Nanson
Jun 20, 20193 min read
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Glennie Kindred – Walking with Trees – review by Roselle Angwin
Recently there has been an upsurge of interest in trees. Some of this arises from research done by Suzanne Simard that gives us a picture of what is now known as the Wood Wide Web; and building on this is the amazing book by Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees. There are now...

Anthony Nanson
May 22, 20194 min read
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Ignition
A poem by Kevan Manwaring from his collection The Immanent Moment, posted on his blog in homage to his beloved motorbike that was mindlessly stolen and destroyed last week. It was his only transport and...

Anthony Nanson
May 21, 20191 min read
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Fiction and Reality: The Ambiguous Writings of Alain Robbe-Grillet and Campbell McCluskie – by Alistair McNaught
Some contemporary scientists give the impression (whether deliberately or not) that the gap between what is known and what is yet to be discovered about life and the universe is too small to accommodate the existence of a deity. And yet, that gap remains...

Alistair McNaught
May 9, 201911 min read
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Helen Moore’s new book The Mother Country
Helen Moore’s third major collection of poems, The Mother Country, is published by Awen on 1 May 2019. Helen is a poet of passion, power, and precision. She writes with a commitment to the world – the ecological, the political, the spiritual...

Anthony Nanson
Apr 30, 20193 min read
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Jay Ramsay: A Celebration of His Life in Music, Poetry and Words
Join us on Saturday 4 May for Jay Ramsay: A Celebration of his Life in Music, Poetry and Words at St Lawrence Parish Church, Stroud at 7pm (6pm for vegetarian Indian food)...

Anthony Nanson
Apr 28, 20191 min read
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Alida Gersie – Earthtales – review by Anthony Nanson
Alida Gersie’s celebrated Earthtales is, in large part, a collection of traditional tales that have to do with the earth and its creatures. Most are from cultures that have been endangered by the imperialism of Western modernity, which by the...

Anthony Nanson
Feb 6, 20192 min read
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Kevin Crossley-Holland – The Magic Lands – review by Anthony Nanson
The Magic Lands is the paperback title of Kevin Crossley-Holland’s British Folk Tales. It’s a better title in that the collection covers Irish tales as well as ones from England, Scotland, and Wales. The Irish stories do tend to...

Anthony Nanson
Jan 20, 20192 min read
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Cecil Collins – The Vision of the Fool – review by Anthony Nanson
I have a hazy memory, from my early twenties, of attending an exhibition of work by William Blake and also Cecil Collins at the Tate. It can’t have been an exhibition of major works, because what I remember are works

Anthony Nanson
Jan 10, 20192 min read
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