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Archive for January 2012
Guest blog: Reading the Cards, by Nancy Campbell
Nancy Campbell is a writer and printmaker. Her publications include ‘After Light’, ‘The Night Hunter’ and ‘How to say I love you in Greenlandic: An Arctic Alphabet’. In 2012 she will be working with Siglufjörður, a small fishing community in northern Iceland, to record the changing marine environment. www.nancycampbell.co.uk Reading the Cards There is a … Continue reading
Is nature writing too nice?
I never much liked the English Romantic poets; even as an English literature-obsessed teenager, forced to write dreary essays about Wordsworth and Keats, something about them always made me want to spit. (But then, I was always more inclined towards the likes of Moby Dick than ‘Ode to a Nightingale’.) It’s not that I didn’t or … Continue reading
Henry Williamson: Tarka the Otter, read by the River Taw
We are grateful to Tim Halpin, who is one of the contributors to the May issue of EarthLines Magazine, for saying that we could ‘steal’ the rather unusual reviews from his blog, Read by the River - subtitled ‘Book reviews on location’. Tim has a new take on book reviewing: ’I don’t read books just anywhere. The location … Continue reading
Guest post: Perihelion
Ian Hill is a writer, bookbinder, printmaker and lover of wild places. He lives in Cumbria, with a view of the hills. His blog is The Printed Land. The perihelion Ian refers to was January 5, 2012. _____________________________________________________________________ “And all those sayings will I over-swear; And all those swearings keep as true in soul As doth … Continue reading
Eco-literature 1: DH Lawrence ‘The Rainbow’
Our intention is to gradually grow the EarthLines blog to be a resource for information about/ reflections on/ reviews of books that fall loosely into the category of ‘eco-literature’ i.e. books about nature, place or the environment. This includes nonfiction, fiction and poetry. If you’d like to contribute something, please contact us. Books covered can … Continue reading
