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What a contrast!! After agreeing to write this blog entry on Irina Kuzminsky’s Heloise Speaks: A Verse Novel, I rushed to my bookshelves...

<p>Storytelling and Ecology, from Bloomsbury Academic, is my first academic monograph. The writing of it – the second draft in particular – was quite an intense experience, since it coincided with the first five months of the pandemic. The concept &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2021/09/03/storytelling-and-ecology-empathy-enchantment-and-emergence-in-the-use-of-oral-narratives/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

Three years ago I moved back to England (to Trowbridge, Wiltshire) after 24 years of living on the east coast of America. And I am very...

'Although nearly all these poems appear in print here for the first time, reading the eight voices included, all strikingly distinct,...

<p>I’ve been aware for a long time how the heroic age of discovery by European explorers, from the late 15th century onwards, raised the curtain for the imperialist conquest and exploitation of the populations and territories of other countries. But &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/a-history-of-discovery-and-exploration-the-search-begins/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>In a lecture called ‘Imagining Otherwise’, included in his book Green Man Dreaming (2018), Lindsay Clarke deploys a diagram of two intersecting circles to illustrate the relationship between our inner and outer worlds. The shape made by their overlap is &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2019/10/02/diana-durham-coherent-self-coherent-world-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>You can’t say it’s not imaginative. Voyage Intemporel is an early BD (1982) of Sergio Macedo’s that depicts a realm of celestial beings who take an interest in the spiritual evolution of life on Earth and become alarmed when humankind &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2019/08/14/voyage-intemporel-timeless-voyage-buddhism-in-space/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Arran Stibbe is the founder of the International Ecolinguistics Association. On this subject of ecolinguistics he, quite literally, wrote the book. The subject, and this superb book, is all about applying the tools of linguistics to the service of a &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2019/07/07/arran-stibbe-ecolinguistics-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Originally posted on <a href="http://blog.stonehenge-stone-circle.co.uk/2019/06/08/merlin-and-the-making-of-stonehenge/">Stonehenge Stone Circle News and Information</a>: <br />The archaeologists have their ideas about how and why Stonehenge was built. The annals of legend have another story, one that involves Merlin the magician plus the uncle and father of&hellip;</p>

Lyrical: Open Mic & More Thursday 6 June 6pm. Trowbridge Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge, Wiltshire Optional theme for Open Mic: Belonging....