Coming back to life in a walled garden

A potter around the walled garden at Wimpole Hall in Cambridge back in May inspired this piece, which might be…

A Bedfordshire A-Z

My series of posts for CPRE Bedfordshire was designed to help readers to explore the county via an A-Z of…

Biography of a wood My starting point for this poem was the idea of ancient woodland. In England, areas of…

Back in 2018 MinK, a new literary zine for Milton Keynes, was launched at the MK Literary Festival. I was…

It’s a clear morning in early February, there’s a tang of cold and salt in the air. A shimmering flock…

Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to…

I have written two briefing papers on environmental themes. Extending the right to roam: the Countryside Code, Covenant and Christianity…

I’ve been reviewing books for the JRI website since 2020. The titles include nature writing, books about the intersection between…

This essay was written as a guest blog post for Land Lines, an AHRC funded project looking at British Nature…

Back in 2015 The Royal Court Theatre in London put out a call for short pieces inspired by the themes…