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New Statesman review: ‘Our Place’, Mark Cocker (Cape, 2018)

Cocker is an unlikely radical in some ways, but at bottom the book he’s written – however measured, equable and intelligent – is a call for revolution. 

books, ecology, nature, politics, Reviews

TLS review: ‘Ground Work’, Tim Dee ed. (Cape, 2018)

The weight of the prevailing aesthetic – today favouring the brooding and sublime, the sensitive, the straight-faced – is as heavy as ever.

books, essays, nature, Nature writing, place, Reviews

New Statesman review: ‘Darker With The Lights On’, David Hayden (Little Island Press, 2018)

The framing of this debut collection by Dublin-born Hayden is insistently absurdist.

books, fiction, literature, Reviews, short stories

TLS review: ‘The Songs Of Trees’, David George Haskell (Viking, 2017)

For David George Haskell, the forest never really ends.

books, ecology, nature, Nature writing, Reviews

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