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“Walter Scott and the Matter of Landscape: Ecologies of Violence” in The Bottle Imp Issue 16, 2014.
Essex University’s MA in Wild Writing: Literature and the Environment
Talk at Casper, Wyoming.
Talk at UW, Casper.
Category Archives: Nature writing
Seeing beyond the Sandhill Cranes: a trip from Eastern Wyoming into Nebraska.
A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place . . . . The cranes stand, as it were, upon the sodden pages of their own history. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). On … Continue reading
Posted in American West, Birds and Animals, Environment and walking, environmental aesthetics, land ethics, Nature writing, Nebraska, Poetry and Essays, Uncategorized, Wyoming
Tagged ecology, environment, landscape, nature, plants, Sandhill cranes, University of Essex, Vedauwoo, Wildflowers, Wyoming
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Wildflower thoughts . . .
Wildflower meadow and nature corridor, Wivenhoe Park, University of Essex OED definitions: Wildflower. Not listed. A search returns “wildering” as the nearest approximation, meaning “Leading or driving one astray.” Wildlife: “The native fauna and flora of a particular region.” Wildlife … Continue reading
Sculptured Coast
Holding back the tide: stone and wooden sea defences at East Lane, Suffolk. A friend visiting from California had been reading W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, so we went for a day visiting places on the Suffolk coast. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, East Anglia, Ecology, Environment and walking, Nature writing, Ruins, Suffolk
Tagged Aldeburgh, Bawdsey, Coastal, Dunwich, East Anglian arts scene, modern British sculptures, Orfordness, Snape
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Wild things. Flowers of the Scottish / English border.
Grasses and wildflowers on the Scottish / English border. Photo from my recent visit to Scotland. Blogpost to follow . . . .
Posted in Ecology, Environment and walking, Nature writing, Scotland
Tagged grasses, Scottish border, Wildflowers
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