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 for JRI, The John Ray Initiative. Extending the right to roam:…

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…