I think this might be one of my favourite pieces I’ve written. I wrote about the fallen raven chick I thought was a rook and adopted, Rookie the raven. About how the strong bonds we create with our pets (whatever they may be) means they are usually our first, lasting experience of deep emotion. Also featuring strange pets and extravagant funerals from Percival Everett, Virgil and Mozart. Read here.
Me and Rookie the Raven
For Tribune I wrote about the power of protest witnessed globally with the Black Lives Matter movement and wielding that power on a local scale. And the hospital in my hometown as a prime example of how we can, and why we should can, fight for local services and communities as hospitals around the country are being closed or partially closed. Click Here.
For Vogue I wrote about my sister and her experience of having cancer and waiting for a stem cell transplant during coronavirus, and what it’s been like to watch. Click Here.
I wrote a front page story for The Independent about dreams, how the militarised language surrounding the pandemic is creeping into our unconscious, and what we can take from it. Click Here.
The wild rose was the first rose, and every rose that exists now is a descendent of that first wild rose… Read the whole thing here
December is a time of giving and nature gives the greatest gifts of all. Read the whole newsletter here.
Did you know there are more than 20,000 kinds of edible plants in the world? That’s more than even the keenest chef could experiment with during World Vegan Month this November. Read the whole newsletter here.
It happens without warning. Somewhere in the still-green trees, hidden leaves have turned brown. One falls and catches the wind: autumn has begun. Read the whole newsletter here.
Consider the humble blackberry as we drift out of September. While the last of butterflies warm their wings in the sun and harvest moons are promised by the sky above, the bramble is loading up its thorny vines with sweet, black fruits for everyone, everywhere. Read the whole newsletter here.
I’ve got a little review in the latest TLS of artist and writer Leanne Shapton’s Guestbook — a dead spooky collection of ghost stories for the 21st Century. Check it out …
