Essays Archives - Hazel Press

Wraecca / Vaka

July 25, 2025
In The Nature Of

Exile, or belonging? Hal Rhoades discusses The Seafarer and ideas about the ocean with Indigenous colleagues from the Pacific

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

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

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