May No Woman Ever Die Of Love
In this audio we hear a new poem from Ilka Scobie, recorded with the drive of the city surrounding her like a sea gale, she sounds almost like she is on a boat, the cry of a whale deep below…
The Brilliance Of Tulips
Charles Saumarez Smith, a single, lit rose and the brilliance of the tulips Charles Saumarez Smith is a freelance writer, curator and art historian. He is an urban explorer by foot and bicycle, and a person who is alive to the…
Epigramma
There are two beauties in our world, the world itself and how it’s seen. In our second mini-podcast, a moment’s thought is offered to us, and we follow the thought’s line along with artist, Andrew Hewish, to where it settles on the remembering of the dead, the rituals of stone, and the poetry, shape and movement of a poetic form being described as, almost, sculpture or choreography. In The Nature Of, shares the varied and rich ways we each see and think about the world.
Audre Lorde
This is a beginning; the first of (hopefully) firsts and seconds and thirds, and 47ths and 102nds. In The Nature Of is a series of short recordings, done outdoors (mostly) with the sounds of birds and branches as roof; water,…
Hazel Press’ First Day
Today is the first day that Hazel Press has had walls. Just beyond the press desk, we are currently looking out at a muntjac deer that has been commuting back and forth all day to nibble, and listen intensely for…
BRAVO Ella Duffy!
--- New Hunger by Ella DuffyPublished 1st May 2020 (Smith|Doorstop)Available to pre-order now: poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/new-hunger In Ella Duffy's debut pamphlet New Hunger, familiar spaces shift dangerously around us, as the human body and the natural world unite in celebration and unease. ---Praise for New Hunger:'New Hunger…
About Anna Selby
Anna Selby is a poet and naturalist. She works collaboratively with conservationists, and is doing a PhD on Plein Air Poetry, Empathy and Ecology at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is currently Poet-in-Residence at The Wordsworth Trust, as well as Cambridge Conservation Initiative, and…
All about Hazel
The Latin name for hazel is Corylus avellana. As Max Adams writes in his book The Wisdom of Trees, "The Hazel may be small, but it is the champion of the woods: the most useful of all trees. The Anglo-Saxons…
in the nature of…
Hazel Press is dedicated to the complex and the curious. Here you will be able to find musings from our curious crowd, and news on what will be forthcoming and reflections what has already, or might have been.