The Four Seasons
A collaborative essay and acoustic piece by Chris Turnbull and Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim. The project documents an abandoned black walnut grove in Kemptville, Ontario, through acoustic recordings and observation.
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Essays on Dog Walking, I & II
Two poems from Thinking with Trees, the brilliant debut collection from Jason Allen-Paisant – published by Carcanet.
Fields of View
Chicago-based naturalist and botanist Andrew Hipp on the connecting threads between science, natural history and writing.
Eternal Forest
Extracts from Eternal Forest, an art project by Evgenia Emets which transforms human relationships with biodiversity, time and the sacred.
Making maps in the backwoods
Melanie Viets speaks to influential artist Jussi Kivi about mapping hidden histories in the landscapes around (and under) Helsinki and beyond.
A Receptive Walk
Audio, photography and text by artist Jessica Emsley from A Receptive Walk, an artistic exercise to disrupt the usual rhythms of more-than-human communication.
Crosscutting / Night Strands / Homesteads
Three new poems from the farmlands of Idaho by Samuel Strathman.
Breathing Trees
On a writing residency in the Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon, Gavin Van Horn embraces the vital possibilities of more-than-human perspectives.
Field notes from a place that does not remember
New writing on landscape and memory by Dave Borthwick, a self-described ‘tramper of fields and stander in the rain’ who lives in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Rural Art is…
This is an extract from Myvillages, ‘Rural Art Is…’, in The Rural, eds. Kathrin Böhm and Wapke Feenstra (London: Whitechapel Gallery/Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2019) If you don’t…
Dicksonia Antarctica
The Tree Fern I once had a Tree Fern (Dicksonia Antarctica) For many, many years my First view each morning From our upstairs window. Beautiful, sweeping fronds So elegant…