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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.
Tag Archives: environment
Snow Story
I have to share a video (see below for YouTube link): please watch billy barr’s deeply moving short story of snow. It’s a Gothic tale of a man living in a cabin in the woods, in winter – all those … Continue reading
Ice Art
“Within a few weeks these murals will be forever gone, but for those who find them, I hope they ignite a sense of urgency.” (Sean Yoro, A’o ‘Ana project website 18.01.17) Reading Georgia McCafferty’s article on artist Sean Yoro’s A’o ‘Ana (The Warning) … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, Art, Ecology, environmental aesthetics, Ice
Tagged Climate Change, ecocriticism, ecology, environment, landscape, nature, soundscapes
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Ice Thoughts: 2,
Study in Ice, Rock and Water. Southern Greenland seen from 36000 feet. Photo © Susan Oliver. Like the white ghost of a glacier the mists advance, riding over phalanxes of tamarack, sliding across bog meadows heavy with dew. A single silence … Continue reading
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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Hot Springs, Atomic Cities, and Craters of the Moon . . . on the Road in Idaho
‘Our heated sidewalks and dressing room floors keep your toes toasty warm, even on the coldest of nights.’ (www.lavahotsprings.com). ‘Welcome to the sagebrush steppe’ (information board, roadside rest area near Atomic City). ‘We’re praying for rain. There was hardly any … Continue reading
Posted in American West, Ecology, Environment and walking
Tagged Craters of the Moon, ecology, environment, Goodale's Cutoff, Idaho, landscape, Meek's Cutoff, nature, pioneer trails, road trip, Sagebrush steppe, Snake River Plain, Superman II, travel writing, U.S. deserts, Volcanic landscapes
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Overhauling. . .
I’ve been reading Kathleen Jamie’s collections Sightlines (2012) and The Overhaul (2012), in readiness for a graduate student discussion. The Overhaul is a collection of lyrical poems that, amongst other things, confronts the paradoxes and pains of isolation and our desire … Continue reading
Chokecherry Wine and Conferencing. . .
Searching for Place: Interpretations of the Landscape and Environment – Conference at the University of Wyoming. 28th – 29th March UW’s graduate conference on the theme of Searching for Place: Interpretations of the Landscape and Environment took place over the … Continue reading
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