#naturewriting — Public Fediverse posts
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Strike
The phobia of a copperhead strike
is made real by the lunge of a
lawnmower into the brush to shred
the coiling orange and brown with
a screaming whump only to realize
that it was an eastern box turtle
I had set upon.
Once again what I am afraid of
has led me to destroy what I love
and I weep, wondering if I will ever
become one whose perceived fears
are not acted on.
I did not look to see if the
slowmover was dead
but I knew. I could see the
bloody pieces of her
shell scattered across
the lawn.September 3, 1996
#1996 #accidentalHarm #backyardEncounter #boxTurtle #compassion #confessionalWriting #copperheadFear #CreationCare #creaturelyGrief #destroyingWhatWeLove #ecologicalGrief #Fear #fearAndViolence #fearBasedAction #griefAndRemorse #HereAreWordPressTagsForThisPieceEasternBoxTurtle #humanFear #lawnmowerTragedy #moralReflection #Nature #NatureWriting #Nonviolence #orangeAndBrown #perceivedDanger #phobia #poem #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Poetry #ProsePoem #Repentance #sacredCreatures #shell #SLOWMOVERFollowingGod3mph #Slowmover #Sorrow #SpiritualReflection #thoughts #turtle #turtleShell #unintendedViolence #Violence #vulnerableCreatures #whatIAmAfraidOf #whatILove #wildlife #Writing -
[CHRONIQUE ESSAI]
Recueil de textes rédigés peu après les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, il est une ode à la nature, à la bienveillance et au respect. Barbara Kingsolver est une autrice à lire absolument ! ⤵️
#VendrediLecture
#LittératureEtatsUnienne
#Documentaire
#NatureWriting
#MastoLivrehttps://deslivresrances.blogspot.com/2026/08/barbara-kingsolver-petit-miracle-et.html?m=1
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It happened: After a long creative crisis, I blogged again:
https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/a9343c7d-7f25-4fea-931d-2335413f25deI’ve regained my passion for #writing human-made texts in a world of slop and scraping. And with #NatureMatchCuts I'll talk about more than nature topics. I'll talk about how we can find #hope and motivation to act in these weird times.
#blog #newsletter #activism #noAI #humanMade #natureWriting #nature #journalismMatters #Luddism #solarpunk #writers #writersCommunity #SupportCreatives #doodle #zine #blogging
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A "tectonic shift" in #natureWriting in #India: My book #TheTreesOfMyCountry gets a mention and accompanying illustration in this nice article about three recent #books by Indian authors.
#nature #wildlife #bookstodon #conservation
By Neha Sinha in Mint Lounge @HindustanTimes -
[CHRONIQUE DOCUMENTAIRE]
Véritable manifeste du Vivant, ce petit livre est une proposition de déclaration des droits de l'océan, et c'est passionnant et stimulant de bout en bout. Paru en 2025 dans la somptueuse collection Mondes Sauvages que l'on ne présente plus ⤵️
#VendrediLecture
#NatureWriting
#Documentaire
#CollectionMondesSauvages
#MastoLivrehttps://deslivresrances.blogspot.com/2026/08/marine-calmet-francois-sarano-justice.html?m=1
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“Facing two ways, the poem is part elegy, part praise song. I felt after reading it as if I’d just been walking over that sunlit ground, as if Jamie had spread the moor under the poem, with the sky arching above it.”
Carol Rumens discusses Kathleen Jamie’s “Moor”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/22/poem-of-the-week-moor-by-kathleen-jamie
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #naturewriting #naturepoetry
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What do we sense on the moor but ghost folk,
ghost deer, even ghost wolf. The path itself is a
phantom, almost erased in ling and yellow tormentil:
flowers of this summer and this summer only…—Kathleen Jamie, “Moor”
from CAIRN (Sort of Books, 2024)https://sortof.co.uk/kathleen-jamie-cairn
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #naturewriting #naturepoetry
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Fanaidh an talamh — the earth waits. It has done this before. It will do it again after every one of us is finished arguing.
What's gone early where you are this year?
#Nature #Phenology #Seasonal #Trees #Summer #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Druid #NatureWriting #Georgia #Kudzu #Cicadas
Today's Gathering → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/firesale-everything-blanche-must-go-also-the-uss-lincoln-is-an-awolfest?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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The tulip poplars have begun dropping yellow leaves in August. Not autumn — thirst. The ground went dry and the tree made a decision about it, ahead of schedule, the way anything does when the season asks too much.
Kudzu in bloom on every roadside, smelling absurdly of grape soda. Cicada shells still gripping the pine bark where the bodies climbed out.
#Nature #Phenology #Seasonal #Trees #Summer #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Druid #NatureWriting #Georgia #Kudzu #Cicadas
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It gets late early out here
in the lacklustre places,
wind in the trees and the foodstalls’
ricepaper lamplight, fading and blurred with rain…—John Burnside, “Travelling South, Scotland, August 2012”
published in BLACK MIDDENS: New Writing Scotland 31 (ASL, 2013)#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #naturewriting #naturepoetry #JohnBurnside
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The hill is tossing high, frail wisps of
rosy cloud to glide in steady gale
along a turquoise sky, around, above the
perpendicular and slightly askew columns,
above the triangular gap
between crown and crag…—Tessa Ransford, “August 3rd”
published in Shadows from the Greater Hill (Ramsay Head Press, 1987)https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/august-3rd/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #naturepoem #naturewriting
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A bird’s voice chinks and tinkles
Alone in the gaunt reedbed –
Tiny silversmith
Working late in the evening…—Norman MacCaig, “July evening”
published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poems-of-norman-maccaig/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #summer #naturepoetry #naturewriting
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Words of the Wild Book Festival
29 September–3 October, EdinburghThis autumn, immerse yourself in some of Scotland’s best nature writing at the first Words of the Wild Book Festival. Featuring online talks, panel discussions & creative writing workshops.
Full programme and tickets:
https://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/wordsofthewild/book-festival/
#Scottish #literature #writing #naturewriting #creativewriting #books #bookfestival #Edinburgh
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Tha an talamh a' cuimhneachadh — the earth remembers. And what she remembers this week is every July before this one, stacked like plates.
What's holding where you are?
#DeepSummer #Phenology #Nature #Foraging #Druid #Pagan #EarthBased #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Georgia #NatureWriting #Solidarity
↳ reply: Today's issue → https://twp.ai/4hsxsK
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The blackberries went red to black along the fencerow this week. Goldenrod is thinking about it.
This is the long unglamorous stretch the old calendars barely name — past the solstice, before the harvest. Nothing beginning, nothing ripened. The whole world simply holding.
#DeepSummer #Phenology #Nature #Foraging #Druid #Pagan #EarthBased #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Georgia #NatureWriting #Solidarity
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Len Howard lebte in den 1940er und 50er mit Vögeln in ihrem Haus und Garten. Sie gestand ihnen zu, individuelle, denkende, planvoll handelnde, komplex kommunizierende Wesen zu sein. Als solche beobachtete sie sie und erzählt uns davon. Herzerwärmend!
Erste Erkenntnis: Nicht nur die Kohlmeisen meiner Kindheit fanden die immer besser versteckte Butter💚
Endlich wieder ein #natureWriting ganz nach meinem Geschmack.https://www.penguin.de/buecher/len-howard-alle-voegel-meines-gartens/buch/9783442762675
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I see the #WainwrightPrize longlist is out. An excellent source of recommended #nature and #conservation #books for the to-read list. I've tried to read as many of the longlisted books every year as I can - a wonderful antidote (or at least respite from) the techno-feudal-media-torment-nexus in which we currently find ourselves. #NatureWriting #bookstodon https://wainwrightprize.com/news/2026-longlist-announcement/
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The grey roots circle thee, who never knew
At any hour within thy travels lone
A human shape but mine…—Olive Fraser, “The Adder of Quinag”
published in THE WRONG MUSIC, @canongatebooks 1989Another poem for World Snake Day 🐍
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/adder-quinag/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #snake #snakes #naturewriting #naturepoetry #Quinag #Sutherland #Highlands #WorldSnakeDay
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“It’s a travesty that so few Scots have heard of Raine – to my mind, one of the greatest, most underrated writers of the twentieth century”
—Kirsten MacQuarrie on her novel REMEMBER THE ROWAN, inspired by the true story of Kathleen Raine & Gavin Maxwell
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https://westendermagazine.com/online-only/new-scottish-novels/
#Scottish #literature #GavinMaxwell #naturewriting #KathleenRaine #20thcentury #womenwriters
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“a contradictory, Peter Pan-like figure, who loved fast cars & adventure, yet sought out the country’s most secluded areas; a virtual recluse who couldn’t really cope with being alone”
—Dani Garavelli on the complexities & controversies of Maxwell’s life & work
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#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #GavinMaxwell #naturewriting #otter #RingofBrightWater
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“I was born in 1962. There’s been an environmental crisis for as long as I’ve lived. To step outside that constant culpability was one of the many delights of RING OF BRIGHT WATER”
—Kathleen Jamie in the London Review of Books on Gavin Maxwell (1914–1969) – born #OTD, 15 July
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v33/n14/kathleen-jamie/diary
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #GavinMaxwell #naturewriting #otter #RingofBrightWater
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Every generation has a narrow understanding of what climate conditions are "normal." It's a shifting baseline... #climate #naturewriting #globalwarming
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[CHRONIQUE ROMAN]
Premier roman (noir) d'un nouvel auteur sur lequel il faudra compter. À la fois écologique, traitant du financement de la drogue, de l'abus sur les animaux, flirtant avec le polar, il recèle aussi de merveilleuses pages de Nature Writing. Sorti dans la belle collection Fiction des éditions Rue de L’échiquier ⤵️
#LittératureEtatsUnienne
#Roman
#NatureWriting
#ÉditionsDeLEchiquier
#MastoLivrehttps://deslivresrances.blogspot.com/2026/07/james-mclaughlin-dans-la-gueule-de-lours.html?m=1
