More laurels for 'Trying to Stay Light'
'Trying to Stay Light' is a short film by photographer and filmmaker Philip Lee Harvey, shot in Norway. The film is a series of visually spectacular, moody maritime landscapes of the Norwegian Arctic coast.
News
New Networks for Nature online gathering 2020
Our New Networks for Nature 2020 Meeting is taking place online, hosted by the University of East Anglia.
Join us live on the afternoon of Saturday 14 November for an online discussion responding to two pre-recorded panels:
Notes on the Anthropocene: art exhibition in Barcelona
If the land could speak, what would it tell us? Three contemporary artists come together for Barcelona Gallery Weekend this year to present three diverse bodies of work about land, landscape and the Anthropocene.
Future and Form - an Arts Council England/UEA project and exhibition on the future of literature
In the midst of the cancellation of everything due to the Sars-Covid-2 pandemic, there is a glimmer of good news.
Literature Live: University of Manchester event with Rachael Allen
Join poet Rachael Allen and I for a reading in the University of Manchester's Literature Live reading series on Monday 24 February from 19.30 until 20.25. Rachael and I will read from recent work and take questions from the audience.
'Horse People' published in Jaguar Land Rover magazine, One Life
'Horse People', a story commissioned by Jaguar Land Rover as their inaugural stand-alone short story for their membership magazine One Life, is published in the latest issue, no.
The Placeless Condition - in conversation with Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge
In her new book, Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees, Lyndsey Stonebridge describes how the human condition became the ‘placeless condition’ for writers and thinkers in the middle of the twentieth century, from Paris to Lisbon, from Berlin to Palestine.
Special MIR issue on Climate and Citizens' Assemblies on climate change
Issue 16 of the journal the Mechanics Institute Review will be dedicated to climate change. My essay on the effect of climate change in the tropics, 'The Kusi' appears in the journal and I will also chair one of three citizens' assemblies on climate change this autumn.
Kuala Lumpur Diversecity International Arts Festival
I am pleased to be participating in the Kuala Lumpur International Arts Festival, Diversecity, from September 15th and to speaking on Antarctica and climate change at UN Global Compact and Climate Governance Malaysia on September 19th.
At Buxton International Festival with Mark Cocker and friends
I am thrilled to be joining Mark Cocker and Tessa Boase to discuss Mark's recent publications Our Place and Claxton Diary, and nature writing more broadly, at the Buxton International Festival, a celebration of the very best mu