Articles by: Mary Woodbury

Line, Niall Bourke

An infinite line where people live in tents, with only a few belongings and food rationed, ready to move at the least sign of movement. Winding through a barren landscape, the line slowly progresses toward an unknown destination. If you lose your place you are left behind and the consequences […]

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The High House, Jessie Greengrass

The water is rising around a coastal hideaway in which five people, including a small child, are trapped, as civilisation is engulfed by flood. –The Spectator Goodreads Reviews Back to Goodreads

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Get to Know Three Eco-Streamers

Earlier this year, I chatted with Forrest Brown on Zoom. He had created the podcast series Stories for Earth, and I’d met him at Rewilding Our Stories, a Discord community founded by the YouTube creator of Ecofictology—Lovis Geier—and myself a few months prior. Both Lovis and Forrest are amazing broadcasters […]

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Sugar Birds, Cheryl Grey Bostrom

Perfect for fans The Scent Keeper, The Snow Child, and The Great Alone, Sugar Birds immerses readers in a layered, evocative coming-of-age story set in the breathtaking natural world where characters encounter the mending power of forgiveness—for themselves and for those who have failed them. Goodreads Reviews Back to Goodreads

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Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat’a, Katłıà

Riveting, subtle, and unforgettable, Katłıà gives us a unique perspective into what the world might look like today if Indigenous legends walked amongst us, disguised as humans, and ensures that the spiritual significance and teachings behind the stories of Indigenous legends are respected and honored. See more at CBC. Goodreads […]

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Indie Corner – Paul S. Piper

Back to the Indie Corner series I’m happy to have the chance to talk with Paul S. Piper, author of the novel The Wolves of Mirr (Book View Cafe, February 2021), which is set in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana. Paul has five published books of poetry, including Dogs and […]

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Waiting for the Rain, Charles Mungoshi

The award-winning writer Charles Mungoshi is recognised in Africa, and internationally, as one of the continent’s most powerful writers today. This early novel deals with the pain and dislocation of the clash of the old and new ways–the educated young man determined to go overseas, and the elders of the […]

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Spotlight – Neus Figueras

Click here to return to the series I’m rebooting an indie corner interview I had with author Neus Figueras, whose children’s book Lorac is beautifully illustrated and written. Inspired by the coral reefs near Myanmar, where Neus spent time doing restoration, this story is aimed toward the younger generation but […]

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Bewilderment, Richard Powers

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, a powerful new novel that asks an essential question: What are we doing to our children? They are our hope for the future, yet we seem to be leaving it up to them to figure out how we all survive. Goodreads Reviews […]

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American Delirium, Betina González

Despite its plenty, nature is a source of immense alienation, a transcendent domain whose existence must be inferred from pale and rippled reflections. González’ writing is at its most innovative when showing (often through only juxtaposition) that human beings are the ultimate cause of their estrangement from the natural world. […]

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Redder Days, Sue Rainsford

…One wonders if there wasn’t something in the air over the past few years that contributed to Redder Days’ sense of foreboding. Certainly, given the international rise of the far-right and the growing threat of ecological disaster, there has been – literally – a shift in temperature. –Hotpress.com Goodreads Reviews […]

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Poems by Rowan Kilduff

Thanks to Rowan Kilduff for sending three nature poems for inclusion in the Dragonfly Library. Rowan is a mountain-runner, writer, activist, photographer, and musician. He lives in the Czech Replubic with his wife, son, and with many good friends around. He has learned the most from his experiences and from […]

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Termination Shock, Neal Stephenson

The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns with a visionary technothriller about climate change. Neal Stephenson’s sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, […]

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Backyard Wildlife – Newly Planting

Back to Series It’s that time of year that everything in our lives is busy: personal projects, work, and tending to the garden and meadow. Somehow our meadow turned from a brown place where buds were barely starting to a wild, vibrant, green space where the fruit trees (pear, crab […]

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The Old Woman and the River, Ismail Fahd Ismail

The story is about the life-giving powers of women; it is also a story about hope and the possibilities of the human spirit even in the bleakest settings. As it unfolds, the boundary between the real and the fantastical never seems stable. What appears impossible may be possible yet. In […]

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