Lena Stolle is sat on the steps of the composting toilet at Schumacher College. You hear the chimes hung just outside it, long and low, sending their reverberations through the redwoods. It is evening, everything is lit from the side…
This wet land: fens, barges, islands and ducks pushing out to the water. Here is a Fenland walk from the generous Alice Willitts, plantswoman, writer, storyteller, environmentalist, maker of beautiful poetry scrolls. She lives in Cambridge and has loved big…
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…
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…
In this recording, poet Ruth Padel offers sounds and senses from her lifelong connection to a familial forest touchstone. The place and pulse of her poem is somehow umbilical, the wind and birdsong become her breath and feelings.
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.
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,…