nature writing Archives

Number 22

Five Dials·29th July 2015

A journey into the forest. William Fiennes on the ash, Tracy Chevalier on the birch, Blake Morrison on the chestnut, Ali Smith on the Scots pine. Plus Philip Hensher, Kate Mosse, Maggie O'Farrell, Tahmima Anam and Susan Elderkin.

Back Issues Number 22 | Why Willows Weep

On Roydon Fen

Roger Deakin·19th July 2012

'This is a classic squatters’ landscape, and all the better for it. I always feel immediately at home in such makeshift places. Even the little palings have a Dickensian sort of attraction.'

Number 2 | Out There Reportage

The Latter-Day Thoreau

Robert Macfarlane·19th July 2012

'Walnut Tree Farm, the house he eventually completed, and in which he died in August, 2006, is made largely of wood. It is as close to a living thing as a building can be.'

Number 2 | Out There Reportage

Ancient Trees, Ancient Knowledge

Jay Griffiths·19th July 2012

'For indigenous people everywhere, nature is an enlargement of your mind and your sense of kin – your social mind. Trees have long been associated with knowledge.'

Number 2 | Out There Reportage

Back Issues

Summer 23

Spring 23

Autumn 22

Interviews

Two Continents Back to Back

Instead of a Plaque in the Sidewalk, How About the Building Next to It?

‘The book is inflected by a general sense of apprehension that we all have at present – an awareness of the possibility of world-ending events.’

Fiction

For the Sake of Dangling Boys

Shalash Speaks . . .

It’s Me

Reportage

Who is Shalash the Iraqi?

Forgotten Traces

Mud

Verse

Three Poems

Four Poems

She’s on the Ching Again

Art

On Art, Walking With Our Sisters and the Problem with Reconciliation

Sinatra Sang in Sentences

An Album Can Last a Day

nature writing

Number 22

On Roydon Fen

The Latter-Day Thoreau

Ancient Trees, Ancient Knowledge

Summer 23

For the Sake of Dangling Boys

The Everything List

Three Poems

Who is Shalash the Iraqi?

Shalash Speaks . . .

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