This bleak but brilliant tale of enigmatic alien entities and slow social collapse exposes the terrifying insecurity of life right now
M John Harrison’s prose has thrilled me since I was a teen. It ha…
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The Book of Birds by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris audiobook review – a love letter to our feathered friends ○
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This compendium of 49 of Britain’s threatened species features lyrical prose poems evoking each bird’s unique qualities and beautiful recordings of their distinctive calls
The Book of Birds delivers a…
39 days ago
To give young people wings: The Lost Words duo reunite for book of birds ⊖
Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane give the Guardian exclusive extracts as they aim to open eyes to the wonder of Britain’s declining and endangered species
When the artist Jackie Morris collaborated…
69 days ago
Sunn O))): Sunn O))) review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week ⊕
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The doomy duo strip back their sound to tectonic guitars and feedback, conjuring an immersive, strangely euphoric listening experience recorded in the wilds of Washington
Nearly seven years o…
84 days ago
‘Fear is good’: my scary subterranean journey into Underland, the film of Robert Macfarlane’s dazzling book ⊖
As the hit travelogue about the worlds beneath us becomes a film, its maker takes us on a voyage through Las Vegas storm drains and the caves of Yucatán – via Goatchurch Cavern in the bowels of Somer…
4 months ago
Know the score? I don’t read music, but that’s no hindrance to reimagining great classical works ⊕
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…
5 months ago
‘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…
12 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…
13 months ago
‘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…
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…