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Cogden Beach

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2025/07/03

In Dorset, Jethro Marshall settles in amongst the shingle and sea kale. Along the western end of Chesil Beach on the Dorset Jurassic Coast, lies a small shingle oasis called Cogden. Accessible from the rolling coastal B3165, this 200m stretch of beach is popular with anglers and hardy hikers. But it’s a unique place, a […]

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Now Playing

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2025/07/02

‘The Oyster Catcher Brings Protection’ by Laura Cannell. Taken from the EP A Compendium of Beasts – Volume 3, out now on Brawl Records. A Compendium of Beasts Volume 3 by Laura Cannell A Compendium of Beasts – Volume 3 is a modern day Medieval Bestiary in sound. It is the second in a […]

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A Slower Tonic

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2025/07/01

Kristie De Garis takes refuge in the polytunnels of Perthshire’s Tomnah’a Market Garden. As I stepped out of the car, summer rain hissed against the windscreen, quickly building to a wash of static. Jacket over my head, I walked the narrow path to the polytunnels, its edges overtaken by summer growth. Grass seed-heads brushed my […]

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Croft, Coast and Hill: Letters from the Northwest...

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2025/06/29

In their bimonthly letter-swap, crofters Kirsteen Bell and Annie Worsley discuss transformation and biodiversity governed by hands, teeth, tongues and hooves. Dear Annie, I’m starting this letter from a sea-hemmed field in North Uist, Uibhist a Tuabh. I’m here to meet other crofters to get a better understanding of how we might work with our […]

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Writing for Antelope Island

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2025/06/28

On Utah’s Antelope Island, Ron Nelson finds himself surrounded by birds and stormy weather. This track serves as a companion to the essay below, a mix of field recordings from my time on Antelope Island, as well as piano, upright bass, and the Lyra synthesizer. I sit thirty yards above the shoreline, on the westernmost […]

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Competition Results

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2025/06/26

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of Tom Howells’ Ancient Britain for Modern Folk: A Field Guide to Megaliths, Mounds & more! to give away, courtesy of Hoxton Mini Press. We asked: By which name is the figure on the front of the book commonly known? […]

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Overnight

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2025/06/26

Recently published by Canongate, Dan Richards’ latest book is an immersive hybrid of investigative journalism, personal memoir and nocturnal psychogeography, writes Andy Childs. “The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?” – John Fowles, The Magus. Good question, if perhaps a […]

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Nightjars of Ludshott

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2025/06/24

When a heathland common and its secretive summer resident combine, magic results, writes Daniel Williams. How much are we shaped by the landscapes that surround us? To greater or lesser degrees, we are free to choose where we live, but after a time, once the choice is made, it can come to feel like the […]

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Peckerwood: Field notes from a feral’d garden

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2025/06/22

Against a backdrop of poppies and bees, the theatrics of life and death play out across the stage of Mark Mattock‘s “feral’d” NW2 garden. May “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds” — Aldo Leopold In a parallel world called dawn, long before the yapping […]

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Unfurling: June

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2025/06/21

Pip Squire sprinkles a handful of fern seed over the summer solstice. Perhaps it is in the mythic idea of fern seed that we find the origins of fairy dust. Throughout literature and folk tale of old, the never-seen seeds of ferns are regarded as a magical substance. In some instances they are used to […]

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Fallon’s Angler Issue 38

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2025/06/20

A PSA to all angling enthusiasts: Issue 38 of Fallon’s Angler — ‘Where land meets the sea: the borders where worlds collide’ — has just hit the net. This issue features Friends of the River Mark Mattock (catching forest bass), Dexter Petley (turning his back on the sea), John Andrews (glimpsing through a window) and […]

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Competition Results

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2025/06/19

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had a copy each of Hamza Yassin’s Be a Birder & Nadeem Perera & Ollie Olanipekun’s Outsiders: Reclaim Your Place in Nature to give away, courtesy of the office shelves. We asked: What is the name of Nadeem Perera and Ollie Olanipekun’s collective — […]

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Bird School

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2025/06/19

Sue Brooks eagerly enrols in Adam Nicolson’s latest book. I enrolled at the Bird School in early May, and it couldn’t have been more timely. In my slowly rewilding garden, there was so much going on. Blackbirds with chicks in the front hedge; great tits taking food every few minutes to one of the nest […]

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When the Sea became a Wall

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2025/06/18

Written by Saleh, a 17-year-old poet from Gaza, ‘When the Sea became a Wall’ is the first in a series of letterpress prints facilitated by writers Alice Oswald, Zaffar Kunial, Max Porter & Robert Macfarlane. The print is accompanied by a statement titled ‘Repeating Ourselves’, which reads: ‘It needs to be repeated that this is […]

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To Be

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2025/06/16

Sally Rodgers takes in ‘Bees: A Story of Survival’ at Liverpool World Museum, and Karman Line Collective’s accompanying soundtrack. Here’s a lovely word for you: melittology. It means the study of bees, but unlike apiology which focuses on the study of how honeybees relate to their environment and the wider ecosystem, melittology considers all the […]

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Everything Sounds

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2025/06/15

An extract from Rowe Irvin‘s ‘Life Cycle of a Moth’, our June Book of the Month. Everything sounds, even the air when there is no wind in it. I am always hearing. All murmur, all patter. The objects in the Museum sound different to other things in the forest. The Museum is an apple pip, […]

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Seven Springs

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2025/06/14

In an extract from work-in-progress ‘Tenderfoot’, JLM Morton tells the story of a forgotten river. the river can make you good ~ Natalie Diaz This is a story of a river. Not a mighty, noteworthy river like the Amazon or the Nile or a river that stabilises the global climate and sustains millions of lives. […]

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The Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers:...

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2025/06/13

The shortlist for The Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers was revealed this week, featuring 6 shortlistees from across the UK: Ashleigh Cleaver, Jem K. Hubbard, Ieuan Goodwin, Carly Razzell, Rebecca Teulon-Rose and Jessica Shelley. The prize, which aims to break down barriers, was set up in 2020 by writer Natasha Carthew to create […]

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Competition Results

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2025/06/13

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of Jay Griffiths’ How Animals Heal Us to give away. We asked: Which author wrote Travels with Charley: In Search of America: a travelogue of their 1960 road trip around the United States with their standard poodle? And the answer is: […]

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The Binding Tide

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2025/06/12

This year, Arts organisation Signal Film and Media commissioned image-maker Nicholas J.R. White to photograph the English port town of Barrow-in-Furness, creating a contemporary response to the iconic Sankey Photography Archive – a unique collection of imagery that captures the industrial and social heritage of Barrow-in-Furness and the surrounding areas. The result is The Binding […]

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