Country diary: As close to immortality as British nature can get | Mark Cocker theguardian.com/environment/20…

Really happy to feature on Creative Writing at Leicester today the brilliant Andrew Lees and his new book 'Neurological Birdsong.' Read more about the book here: …eativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-j-le… Creative Writing at Leicester Mirabeau Press Everybody'sReviewing

Unveiled last month on Scarborough Harbour overlooking the North Sea, Paul Morrison’s ‘Sea Oak’ sculpture is the latest work to be added to the Wild Eye coastal art and nature trail caughtbytheriver.net/2024/04/sea-oa…

The Globalist: Should dolphins and whales be recognised as legal persons? Indigenous leaders in the Pacific think so. @GeorginaGodwin speaks to Laline Paull FRSL, the author of cetacean epic ‘Pod’ monocle.com/radio/shows/th…

Is anything more wonderful than ancient trees? Here are some of most Britain's most famous: the Yew & me 5k yrs old (allegedly), the Birnham oak & sycamore and lastly my favourite the oldest goat willow (nr Struay) in UK, which is more entire ecosystem than solitary veteran

For BBC Culture, I wrote about Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974) and what it has to say about private surveillance fifty years after its release. bbc.com/culture/articl…

New review on Everybody's Reviewing by Lee Wright of 'The Observable Universe' by Heather McCalden everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2024/04/review… Fitzcarraldo Editions Jonathan Taylor Creative Writing at Leicester We Love Memoirs Guardian Books

Country diary: A giant of the sea, reduced to a fragment | Sara Hudston theguardian.com/environment/20…

Highly recommended reading @faber

Country diary: Keeping a close eye on the adders | Mark Cocker theguardian.com/environment/20…

An Easter cartoon for Guardian Books #Easter #poetry

That time of morning ☕

It's that time of evening 🍷

Perhaps, long ago, somebody had a tea party in this field.

Having had the pleasure of listening to Mark Cocker talk recently about his latest release, ONE MIDSUMMER'S DAY, & so much more, I can't recommend this event highly enough.
Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust #WritingCommunity #readingcommunity

Enjoy a wild night in with Mark Cocker organised by Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust in April.

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The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’ theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/…

'With life writing, the work is about getting past the idea that the experience itself is enough, that you’ve only to transcribe it. You must write a memoir as if you’re writing a novel; you have to give it a shape.' - Blake Morrison (2018)

As literary festivals go, that was a great one! Literary Leicester 2024 smashed it this year! Harry Whitehead English, University of Leicester Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability Jonathan Taylor

'It covers a wealth of terrain... Is it a folklore and legend book? A travel and history book? Psychogeographical philosophy? Natural History/Conservation? Occulture and Mystery?' Folk Horror Revival ⨘ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ asks all the right quesions folkhorrorrevival.com/2024/03/20/sun…