A Thrill of Gratitude

By Sue BrooksAugust 12, 2026

Spurred on by Nabokov, Sue Brooks seeks the company of a favourite butterfly. July’s pleasures came early this year on account of the heat wave. Butterflies that migrate here from Europe were on the wing in large numbers in May and June. But July is the peak month. It’s the time when I open Chapter […]

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LandxSea Film Festival

Taking place at the community-owned Montrose Playhouse from 11–13 September, this year’s LandxSea Film Festival will bring together 22 films and a packed programme of live Q&As, musical performances, workshops, community activities and conversations exploring the future of land, sea and the living world. Still from Walter Kalan’s ‘Children & Animals’ The festival opens on […]

Diva HarrisAug 24, 2026

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Peckerwood: Field notes from a feral’d garden

Swifts scream joy like fairground goers over Mark Mattock’s “feral’d” NW2 garden. …in May Morning is breaking, otherworldly and familiar. Screaming swifts descended from their nocturnal heights slash the first rays fired from the horizon that skim the rooftops and ignite the ash crowns a hot tangerine. Their bladed wings glint in the new blue […]

Diva HarrisAug 23, 2026

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Lichen Moss and Bone – Tendernesses

Kirsteen McNish chases hope, as her herbs cry out for rain. I recently learnt to drive, something I never wanted or thought I would be able to do. We can no longer carry my disabled daughter on our backs when her hypermobile limbs and buckling ankles give way. She is now a 17-year-old woman. Piggybacks […]

Kirsteen McNishAug 20, 2026

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Now Playing

‘When The Cranes’ by Nina Winder-Lind. Wild Love by Nina Winder-Lind Taken from the album Wild Love, out now on Transgressive. “The kind of base line is that I am alive… I’m so alive and I’m so grateful for that. You get to do all these things and feel all these things and you’re in […]

Diva HarrisAug 19, 2026

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Book of the Month: August

Published last week by Canongate, August’s Book of the Month is Alycia Pirmohamed’s ‘Shorelines: Memory, migration and the selves we become’. Winner of the 2023 Nan Shepherd Prize, the book sees its author trace the legacies of migration and memory on her life, examining the idea of homeland and the mythmaking it demands. Read an […]

Diva HarrisAug 17, 2026

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The Ecological Listening Project

The Ecological Listening Project, an initiative of River Margin, is looking for audio submissions of recordings from around the world capturing how the natural environment sounds where you are — it could be frogs calling, a stream running, birdsong, wind, insects, all specific to your location. They are also accepting spoken word recordings of observations […]

Diva HarrisAug 15, 2026

A Thrill of Gratitude

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