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Storytelling and Ecology: Empathy, Enchantment, and Emergence in the Use of Oral Narratives
<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 … <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">→</span></a></p>
Anthony Nanson
Sep 3, 20213 min read
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Arran Stibbe – Ecolinguistics – Review
<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 … <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2019/07/07/arran-stibbe-ecolinguistics-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
Anthony Nanson
Jul 7, 20193 min read
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Alida Gersie's Earthtales (review)
<p>Alida Gersie’s celebrated Earthtales is, in large part, a collection of traditional tales that have to do with the earth and its creatures. Most are from cultures that have been endangered by the imperialism of Western modernity, which by the … <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2019/02/06/alida-gersies-earthtales-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
Anthony Nanson
Feb 6, 20192 min read
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Valerian and Laureline and the Dream of Paradise
<p>I was wrong to think that the guy and the girl always had equal billing in the title of the original comic series: Valérian et Laureline was for most of its history Valérian, agent spatio-temporel. But I still reckon the … <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/valerian-and-laureline-and-the-dream-of-paradise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
Anthony Nanson
Aug 7, 20173 min read
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Kim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain
<p>Having tackled the environmental politics of Mars and Antarctica, Kim Stanley Robinson took on the challenge of global warming. Forty Signs of Rain is the first instalment of a trilogy and should not be judged as a stand-alone novel. Most of it … <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/forty-signs-of-rain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
Anthony Nanson
Apr 27, 20172 min read
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A Prehistoric Giant African Weasel
<p>When I was a boy I got interested in the mammals of the world – including a particular affection for the Mustelidae, or weasel family. I guess that’s why it struck a chord when I found out about a large … <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/a-prehistoric-giant-african-weasel/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
Anthony Nanson
Mar 22, 20172 min read
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Jean Hegland's Into the Forest
<p>I first heard about Jean Hegland’s novel Into the Forest in an Interzone review by David Pringle in 1998, two years after the book was published. Hegland is a West Coast author and Pringle positioned her novel in a subgenre … <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/01/06/jean-heglands-into-the-forest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
Anthony Nanson
Jan 6, 20172 min read
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Review: Words of Re-Enchantment by Anthony Nanson - by Lorna Smithers
<p>Originally posted on <a href="http://godsandradicals.org/2016/10/20/review-words-of-re-enchantment-by-anthony-nanson">GODS & RADICALS</a>: <br />Anthony Nanson is a storyteller and writer based in Stroud. He currently runs Awen Publications. Words of Re-Enchantment: Writings on Storytelling, Myth and Ecological Desire is a collection of essays originally written for various…</p>
Anthony Nanson
Oct 20, 20161 min read
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Cycling Back to the South Pacific
<p>One thing I always intended to blog about was my field research for Deep Time. I’ve done a post about the trip to Gabon, but not yet about the one to New Caledonia – and now I’m about to return … <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/cycling-back-to-the-south-pacific/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
Anthony Nanson
Aug 23, 20162 min read
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Richard Kerridge's Cold Blood
<p>There are not too many dinosaurs in Britain today, unless you count the birds. And as a kid with my animal books I was underwhelmed by the slender list of living reptiles this country boasts: three kinds of snake and … <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/06/04/reptile-and-amphibian-memories/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
Anthony Nanson
Jun 4, 20162 min read
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Words of Re-enchantment - by Nimue Brown
<p>Originally posted on <a href="https://druidlife.wordpress.com/2016/05/30/words-of-re-enchantment">Druid Life</a>: <br />Anthony Nanson’s ‘Words of re-enchantment’ is a collection of essays which its subtitle labels as storytelling, myth and ecological desire. I’d go a lot further than this, because it’s a relevant book for anyone wanting…</p>
Anthony Nanson
Jun 3, 20161 min read
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Helicoptering over the Rainforest
<p>I’d already written a couple of drafts of Deep Time when I finally saw first-hand the Central African forest my story begins in. Unexpectedly, I ended up going there by helicopter and so got a privileged view of hundreds of … <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/helicoptering-over-the-rainforest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
Anthony Nanson
Mar 11, 20162 min read
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Battlestar Galactica and Ecology
<p>For several gruelling months at work, it was an episode of Battlestar Galactica each evening that kept me going – till I’d worked through all five box sets. A military SF story about shooting up evil robots may not seem … <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/battlestar-galactica-and-ecology/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
Anthony Nanson
Feb 29, 20162 min read
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