Birth of a foal
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
Another Year
Three poems by Nicola Healey on seasonal displacement and discovery: brevity, regeneration and renewal
Three poems by Elspeth Wilson
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
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
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
Peace with My Body
What is it to be a woman and a writer in this world as it is now? Jaylan Salah shares the experiences of financial struggle, shame, the expectations of a female body placed on us by society and the freedom…
Painting The Water
Regine Bartsch is an artist who lives her art. She was born in Hamburg, had a nomadic childhood living in Syria, Finland, Turkey, Germany and in 1978 settled in Ireland establishing her studio where to this day she continues to create…
Long Long Backstrokes Under the Clouds
Swimming in the Pandemic Alexis Wolf is a natural storyteller, true spirit, champion of women's writing and has a boundless enquiring mind and curiosity for past and present. In this recording, she shares that first fizzing swim of the year…
Sing and Louder Sing
Phoebe Cope is an Irish painter living in Scotland and is a multi talented person filled with great imagination and wit. She grew up as one of three children in Kilkenny on a farm and had a childhood that included donkeys,…
