Noticing the Invisible
byIn cities, we don’t usually see polluted air in front of our eyes, but its impact may still be felt inside our lungs. According…
Radical Landscapes
Scrub
byBeyond the chain-link fence of my primary school, across the alleyway into town, was a land of fascination. We called it the ‘waste ground’…
MOTHERBABYHOME
byKimberly Campanello on her series of poems that memorialises those who died at St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home, Ireland. Part of Radical Landscapes.
The Land Incanted
byThe words “incanted” and “enchanted” share the same etymological root. An incantation is defined as “the use of spells or verbal charms spoken or…
Clouting
byDecember It takes two years off their life, if they have lambs when they’re shearlings, if they’re going to live on the fells….
Last Glacial Maximum
byWe often look to the past in order to understand the present. Those in northern Britain who engage in such an activity will eventually…
Wild City Manifesto
bythe wild city is only the past repeating * wildness doesn’t begin or end at the edge of the city * the wild…
Editorial: Radical Landscapes
byRadical Landscapes takes its title from Harriet Tarlo’s seminal collection of British ecopoetries The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (Shearsman, 2011)…
love poetry: the slug edit
byI offer words of love to water, and to the place where it emerges, streams, out of the earth. One small book (precious), A…
The same scene (nightish)
byJames Sanders is taking part in Radical Landscapes: Innovation in Landscape and Language Art at The Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington, Devon…