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The Waterlands

Stephen Rutt
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Walking Writers Salon – Meandering through the Landscape

Award-winning naturalist and author Stephen Rutt was our Walking Writers Salon guest in June, discussing his latest book The Waterlands.  Too long have we taken water for granted – it is a crucial element that keeps our world alive, without it there is no life. Following the path of a raindrop to the sea, from the boggy

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Meandering through the landscape

2026-06-16 18:00
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We are excited to have award-winning naturalist and author Stephen Rutt as our Walking Writers Salon guest in June. Too long have we taken water for granted – it is a crucial element that keeps our world alive, without it there is no life. Following the path of a raindrop to the sea, from the

Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece

Julian Hoffman
video 2025  

A 100 day walk across Europe with a wolf for company

Video recording of a Walking Writers Salon with Adam Weymouth, author of Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe. Conservation policies across Europe have been encouraging ‘re-wilding’ of landscapes, including the re-introduction for animals that once roamed more freely. Scientists have been tracking such re-introductions, and back in 2011, a wolf left its family pack

post 17 Dec, 2024

The wild geese visiting Scotland

Writer-in-residence Damaris West delights in skeins of geese in poetry and prose.

The Many Selves of Katherine North

Emma Geen

Nature’s Ghosts: the world we lost and how to bring it back

Sophie Yeo

The Company of Owls

Polly Atkin

Some of Us Just Fall

Polly Atkin

Groundbreakers: the return of Britain’s wild boar

Chantal Lyons

Gifts of Gravity and Light

Anita Roy
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Crìochaire-cladaich/ Keeping close to shore

Since I started my residency* at the Admiral’s House on Skye in early August, I’ve written and rewritten about 5,000 words in short-form texts that relate to periods of attentive listening, observations, and listening back to field recordin...

Kim V. Goldsmith
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Squaring the Circle

I am pleased that my essay Squaring the Circle has been published in Caught by the River. In it I walk forageable and forbidden places near my home in Edinburgh. It was written in response to a Walking the Land brief from David Tidsall and Andy Fr...

Tamsin Grainger

Videos

video 2025  

Words to Light the Dark – hosted by Chantal Lyons

What can the planet’s past tell us about the future? How do we relate to nature when our bodies try to keep us from it? And how do you write about creatures that don’t wish to be found?   Join Wainwright Prize-nominated authors Sophie Yeo, Polly Atkin, and Chantal Lyons – host of this Salon and walk · listen · create’s Writer-in-Residence – as they explore the

video 2024  

A Coastal Treasure hunt with Kathryn Tann author of ‘Seaglass’

Video recording of a Walking Writers Salon with Kathryn Tann, author of ‘Seaglass’ her debut collection of essays – art memoire, part nature writing. On a windswept stretch of the Durham coastline, there’s treasure to be found: jewels of shining sea glass, swept in by the tide after years at sea. Gathered together in a

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Old Birder’s Almanac

Nature writing from a passionate birdwatcher
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scurrifunge

To work or walk hurriedly. from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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