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Spring and its discontents

Spring and its discontents April used to be the cruellest month – the world was having a party and I was at home washing my hair. People ...

monochrome monday

minding where i'm stood longing for the far ecstatic mining this terrain

Newsletter Jan 21

Here is a link to my Jan 21 Newsletter, with info on posting reviews, booking a talk, other forthcoming tree writings . . . https://shout...

Winter Log

Last April I wrote a piece ‘Spring and its discontents’ about the perennial challenge of that blooming joyful season for depressives like...

Newsletter Dec 20

Here is the link to my December Newsletter, with more on getting your copy of Living With Trees, #XmasSorted , the forthcoming art.earth ...

LWT Launch - video

In case you missed our launch of Living With Trees, here is a video of the event. After Jon Woolcott introduces proceedings, at around 3 ...

Will Kirk and Waitrose select LWT!

Will Kirk (The Repair Shop) writes in the Waitrose Weekend Magazine (p50): "What appears to be a fountain of information, exploring many ...

Launch Q&A - your questions answered

At the launch of Living With Trees we had lots of great questions, only some of which I had time to answer on the night. You will find mo...

Living With Trees - Launch

Scenes from a book launch . . . Thanks to everyone for tuning it - about 140! We will edit the launch recording and post up soon, for any...

Newsletter Nov 20 - 3 things . . .

https://mailchi.mp/5eac82f5390f/living-with-trees-newsletter-nov-7109861 Here is a quick reminder of our online launch tomorrow

Georgie goes yarn-bombing . . .

Interview on This is Alfred - Shaftesbury's daily podcast. You may notice colourful fabric draped from the branches of trees on Shaftesbu...

Interview about Living With Trees

Here is a short interview about Living With Trees' on the daily 'This is Alfred' podcast. We talk about the long writing process, what it...

Living With Trees - peek inside...

It's a thing of beauty! Short video showing the book (46 seconds)

Newsletter Nov 2020

https://mailchi.mp/a9b3cb9e79dc/living-with-trees-newsletter-nov-20 Here is my first Newsletter to accompany the launch of "Living With T...

1 . . . Countdown . . .

A common feature of the projects described throughout this book is that they all originate in a particular place, borne of particular nee...

2 . . . Countdown to publication . . .

Imagine these islands with large forests, small woods and a countryside dotted with trees, covering about a third of the land. Some of th...

3 . . . Countdown to publication . . .

The F-Word Can we let forests flourish, but still take a cut? Forestry is often overlooked and misunderstood. Foresters themselves have b...

4 . . . Countdown to publication . . .

We explore how trees have entwined themselves in our culture . . . (photo Hugh Dunford Wood) "As the author Robert Pogue Harrison points...

5 . . . Countdown to publication . . .

We explore the role trees play in our daily lives . . . Trees and woods are rarely private, in the sense that they are usually visible to...

6 . . . Countdown to publication . . .

In chapter 2 we look at Trees in our lives and consider the many contributions of trees. We come across trees in our lives every day and ...

Are we there yet . . . ?

You know on a long journey when your dad says 'Count to 100 and we'll be there' . . . then as you approach 100 with no destination in sig...

7 . . . Countdown to publication . . .

Planting is all the rage these days but it isn’t new. Over the last century, ambitious afforestation (planting on new land) expanded UK f...

8 . . . Countdown to publication . . .

At the beginning of the book, we look at what we have lost and what remains of our woods, including our precious Ancient Semi-natural Woo...

9 . . . Countdown to publication . . .

Here is the opening paragraph of Ch1 . . . "Wild nature is self-willed: it does what it likes. Yet we seek to control it, until it is tam...

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