The animal encounter poem is now so distinct a genre that it would be possible to create a full-length anthology from deer encounter poems alone, and many varieties of experience would emerge from such an exercise.
From John Burnside
It's important to have quiet time and isolation.
Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines.
The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.
As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.
Once upon a time, forests were repositories of magic for the human race.
Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.
A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.
One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.'
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