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By Diva HarrisJuly 15, 2026

‘Rock Island Line’ by Jake Xerxes Fussell. The Old Beloved Path by Jake Xerxes Fussell Taken from the album The Old Beloved Path, upcoming on Fat Possum.

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Ghost Egret

A poem by Will Burns. Looking through itself at the stickleback shadow play below the surface. Though perhaps (a schoolboy reflex) it’s just staring at its feet. The diagnostic yellow somehow clearer, more distinct, in the ditchwater refraction. At the part they call ‘the Wides’, where the narrowboats used to turn around before this section […]

Will BurnsAug 5, 2026

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‘Furlongs 1’ by Gilroy Mere. Furlongs by Gilroy Mere Taken from the album Furlongs, out on Clay Pipe Music in September. Since his 2023 album Gilden Gate, Oliver Cherer (aka Gilroy Mere) has kept himself busy. He has recorded an album and toured internationally with the Miki Berenyi Trio, and played bass in Lol Tolhurst’s […]

Diva HarrisAug 2, 2026

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Small, Earth-Bound Attention: Jenny Chamarette, interviewed

Book of the Month for July was Jenny Chamarette’s ‘Q is for Garden: Tending the histories of queer cultivation’. In our latest author Q&A, Jenny speaks to Tallulah Brennan about feeling through tendrils of queerness, what compost can teach us about breaking down, and daffodils as symbols of the violent and the sublime. Find an […]

Diva HarrisAug 1, 2026

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Words, weeds and wildfires: the violence of our mother tongue

Blue Kirkhope unpicks how the English language can be a catalyst for the climate crisis. A vibrant Maidenhair Spleenwort fern protruding from a wall in Glasgow city centre, like a tongue emerging from a mouth We need to talk about how we talk about nature and climate: about how the English language can be a […]

Diva HarrisJul 31, 2026

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Croft, Coast and Hill: Letters from the Northwest Highlands

Summer brings moonwort and sea thrift, rain and flame to the Highlands, as Kirsteen Bell and Annie Worsley look for symbols of hope on their crofts. June 24th, Duisky Dear Annie, If you look closely enough, this letter is likely seeded in willow. Every swirl of air carries soft white flecks of down, drifting over […]

Diva HarrisJul 29, 2026

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A Photographic Friendship

Opening this Saturday 1st August at The Burton, Bideford, Devon, A Photographic Friendship: James Ravilious and Chris Chapman celebrates the remarkable artistic partnership and shared vision of two of the UK’s most significant documentary photographers. Archie Parkhouse and Ivor Brock moving a sick ram, Dolton, 1976. Photograph by James Ravilious © Beaford Arts. Presented as part […]

Diva HarrisJul 28, 2026

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