Our intention is to gradually grow the EarthLines website and blog to be a resource for information about/ reflections on/ reviews of books that fall loosely into the category of ‘ecoliterature’ i.e. books about nature, place or the environment. This includes nonfiction, fiction and poetry. On our website, you’ll find a growing list of recommended reading in a variety of categories, along with brief descriptions of the books. We hope over time to build up a list of reviews and reflections of some of those books from a variety of guest contributors; those articles will appear on this blog and be linked from the main EarthLines website.

If you’d like to contribute something, please contact us. Books covered can be old or new, and can be already on the list at the EarthLines website, or something we haven’t added yet. We’re not necessarily looking for complete reviews; we’re open to reflections on specific aspects of a book, and discussions of specific ideas that they convey.

We’re also perfectly happy to include more than one piece on the same book, so don’t assume that if it’s already listed here we won’t want any more thoughts on it. Some of these books warrant endless reflection!

You can contact Sharon Blackie info[at]earthlines[dot]org[dot]uk to submit your reflection.

BOOKS AND WRITERS FOR WHICH ARTICLES EXIST

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D’Urbervilles: http://earthlinesmagazine.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/guest-post-tess-of-the-durbervilles-on-marlborough-down-by-tim-halpin/

Tim Ingold

Being Alive: http://earthlinesmagazine.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/book-review-being-alive-by-tim-ingold/

DH Lawrence

The Rainbow: http://earthlinesmagazine.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/eco-literature-1-dh-lawrence-the-rainbow/

Kathleen Raine

http://earthlinesmagazine.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/guest-post-by-ian-hill-changing-the-rules-rebecca-solnit-and-kathleen-raine/

Martin Shaw

A Branch from the Lightning Tree: http://earthlinesmagazine.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/why-storytelling-has-any-relevance-at-all-to-ecoliterature/

Rebecca Solnit

http://earthlinesmagazine.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/guest-post-by-ian-hill-changing-the-rules-rebecca-solnit-and-kathleen-raine/

Henry Williamson

Tarka the Otter: http://earthlinesmagazine.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/henry-williamson-tarka-the-otter-read-by-the-river-taw/