The autumn and winter is greeted here on the Essex coast with flocks of Dark Bellied Brent Geese, overwintering to escape the harsh realities of their Siberian breeding grounds. The sounds of these majestic birds throng the air and for me are a clear association with my sense of place. I might complain that theyContinueContinue reading “Book Review – Wintering – by Stephen Rutt”
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Book Review – Bird Therapy – by Joe Harkness
”Consistent and constant, yet wild and free Are the avian wonders comforting me. From the lake at my patch, to the gorse-speckled heath, they dowse me in light, over darkness beneath. Sharpening senses, they help me to find, the systems and solace that strengthen my mind. From meadow to estuary, shingle to tree, I’ll alwaysContinueContinue reading “Book Review – Bird Therapy – by Joe Harkness”
Book Review – The Easternmost House – by Juliet Blaxland
‘’The Easternmost House is a portrait of a place that soon will no longer exist. It is a memorial to this house and the lost village it represents, and to our ephemeral life here, so that something of it will remain once it has all gone.’’ The bar was set high when I read theContinueContinue reading “Book Review – The Easternmost House – by Juliet Blaxland”
Book Review -The Wild Remedy by Emma Mitchell
Gritty, honest, lump-in-throat-inducing, sobering. The Wild Remedy is one of the most powerful personal accounts of a struggle with depression that I have read, and a signal to all of us of the power and importance of the natural world in alleviating times of great personal struggle. Emma Mitchell’s words strike a chord that inducesContinueContinue reading “Book Review -The Wild Remedy by Emma Mitchell”
Book Review: The Light in the Dark – A Winter Journal – by Horatio Clare
It’s not often that I leave a book with a lump in my throat but that’s the case with Horatio Clare’s recent journal The Light in the Dark. Brutally honest and emotionally harrowing Clare cuts to the heart of what it means to live with a mental health condition but also shows how the natural worldContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Light in the Dark – A Winter Journal – by Horatio Clare”
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