Folk duo Pound & Stevens have transformed, and added to, Holst’s The Planets Suite and tour the new work this week with Britten Sinfonia. Will Pound explains why playing by ear is his greatest streng…
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‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone ⊕
Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect gift
I love giving books as presents. I rarely give anything else. I stro…
9 months ago
Rob Macfarlane : ‘Sometimes I felt as if the river was writing me’ ○
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The writer and poet on reimagining rivers as living beings, the ecological crisis near and far and why copyright laws should protect nature
Robert Macfarlane has been called the “great nature writer a…
‘Chipmunks were obsessed with my mics’: the man who recorded a tree for a year ○
Joshua Bonnetta spent 8,760 hours recording a pine – then honed it down into a four-hour album full of creatures, cracking branches and quite possibly the sound of leaves growing
What does a landscape…
10 months ago
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane review – streams of consciousness ○
An impassioned plea to save our rivers combines poetry and adventure
Tracking a river through a cedar forest in Ecuador, Robert Macfarlane comes to a 30ft-high waterfall and, below it, a wide pool. It…
Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers ○
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As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?
If you find it difficult to think of a river as ali…
13 months ago
Winter wonder: Jeanette Winterson and others reveal why the cold has them under its spell ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Too dark, too cold – winter’s charms aren’t as obvious as summer’s brassy joys. But for Robert Macfarlane, Alice Oswald, Poppy Okotcha and others, this is a rich season. Here, they offer ways to lean…
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