Dead Owls and Blue Bottle Flies
byHeather Swan, author of Where Honeybees Thrive, explores the taxidermy art of Claire Morgan alongside her own encounters with owls and death.
Rot
Breathing Trees
byOn a writing residency in the Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon, Gavin Van Horn embraces the vital possibilities of more-than-human perspectives.
Coring Europa / induction rhetoric
byTwo new poems by Josh Allsop, whose research explores the experience of difficulty in the poetries of Geoffrey Hill and J.H. Prynne.
Spoiled Waters Spilled
byPreviewing an exhibition exploring rivers, contamination and cross-border circulation. Part of Manifesta 13 Les Parallèles du Sud.
Pharmakeia
byThe Circe myth updated for the age of synthetic biology: disconcerting new writing by Erin Rogers, with accompanying art by John Stark.
Editorial: Rot
byEditor Julia Cavicchi introduces Rot, a section of The Learned Pig exploring multispecies creativity through modest tales of collaboration and coexistence.
Compassionate Climate Activism
byVermont-based environmental and social justice advocate Chris Gaynor on the compulsion to protect, educate and care for our species.
In The Fray
by“Sewing is an act of care and kindness,” says artist Hana Wilde. “I look for the shared textures, colours and forms between the human and non-human.”
Petites Morts
byAn ongoing photographic collaboration between artist Nadège Meriau and mushrooms gathered from an ancient woodland in North London.
…Remains
byArtist Gillian Genser describes how making art caused irreparable damage to her own body due to the toxic residues of human progress.
Growing SCOBY in Inappropriate Contexts
byArtist Bianca Hlywa delves into the process of making collaborative installations using SCOBY – symbiotic cultures of bacteria and yeast.