In The Nature Of Archives

Seed pockets

September 14, 2023
Autumn Thoughts, In The Nature Of

Hannibal Rhoades hums quietly to autumn, the season of seed dispersal

An illustrator’s eye

July 1, 2023
In The Nature Of

Wildlife illustrator Marc Dando on how the act of drawing can help us to 'see'

Path near Watersmeet alongside the East Lyn river

Rivers, rocks, air and rain

June 1, 2023
In The Nature Of, Summer Thoughts

Three poems by Terry Gifford about journeys in air, water, earth and stone

A Proustian blossoming

May 1, 2023
In The Nature Of, Spring Thoughts

Jane Brocket explores Marcel Proust's fascination with hawthorn blossom, the flower of May

pic taken in the Euganean Hills (Italy), 2021, by Ilaria Boffa

Make me ready

April 1, 2023
In The Nature Of, Spring Thoughts

Three "sono-poems" by Italian poet and sound recordist Ilaria Boffa

Her 4 Exmoor ponies in the snow on the moors. Photo by Tricia Gibson

Birth of a foal

February 1, 2023
In The Nature Of, Spring Thoughts

Tricia Gibson spends days walking the open moorland of Dunkery hill in Somerset checking the free-ranging Exmoor ponies that live there. One spring day, she witnessed the birth of a foal

Frosty winter morning showing fields and hedges. Photo by poet Nicola Healey

Another Year

January 1, 2023
In The Nature Of, Winter Thoughts

Three poems by Nicola Healey on seasonal displacement and discovery: brevity, regeneration and renewal

Three poems by Elspeth Wilson

December 1, 2022
In The Nature Of

New poems exploring what it means to live in a particular body and recognise its connection with the natural world

Making a psychic flak jacket

November 15, 2022
In The Nature Of

Artist Emma Tuck on how she made a psychic flak jacket, bringing together an assemblage of universal archetypes, internal helpers and childhood imaginary friends

Be Here Now

November 1, 2022
Autumn Thoughts, Hazel Press, In The Nature Of

Writer and Hazel Press commissioning editor Sara Hudston makes a plea for a radical arts practice based on being fully present outdoors without technological intermediaries