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https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/08/17/ann-nocenti-david-aja-seeds-1-ebay-uk/ Ecofiction comics. I have ordered the first issue, and the second, coming in September, seems to be sold out!
Regular reads of Bleeding Cool (and Lying In The Gutters before it, and All The Rage before that and The ... Read More
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New today on ClimateCultures, poet Clare Crossman shares the first of two sets of illustrated poems on climate change and nature - a great addition to our growing creative content! (plus also a link to a film performance of many of these). Do enjoy and...
New today on ClimateCultures, poet Clare Crossman shares the first of two sets of illustrated poems on climate change and nature - a great addition to our growing creative content! (plus also a link to a film performance of many of these). Do enjoy and...
At a time when the world is changing more quickly than ever before, we need a new vocabulary. Cameron Laux picks out 14 words and phrases that can help us grasp what’s going on.
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Five novelists – Natasha Carthew, Mandy Haggith, Tom Bullough, Sylvia V. Linsteadt and Cynan Jones – on the craft of writing wild words.
Five novelists – Natasha Carthew, Mandy Haggith, Tom Bullough, Sylvia V. Linsteadt and Cynan Jones – on the craft of writing wild words.
dark-mountain.net
http://workshop.dragonfly.eco/agam-filipino-narratives-on-uncertainty-and-climate-change/ Part 4 in our world eco-fiction series.
Agam reflects the confrontation between climate change and diverse cultures across the Philippines. It combines original new works in prose, verse, and photographs and depicts uncertainty—and tenacity—from the Filipino perspective, minus the...
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Manhattan's Times Square was "flooded" in a multi-media art display aiming to show how climate change could lead to sea levels rising over low-lying sections of New York City.
Manhattan's Times Square was "flooded" in a multi-media art display aiming to show how climate change could lead to sea levels rising over low-lying sections of New York City.
thejakartapost.com
Celebrating Eco-fiction's five year anniversary some more. It wasn't planned, but in the process of getting some books up before vacation, I realized I was almost at the 600th book post, which ended up remarking on Tolkien's universe--a legendarium--particularly to spotlight The Fall of the...
eco-fiction.com
Highly recommended read this morning. A good and hearty laugh but with passion in the belly.
‘Wild, sir!’ he bellows. ‘A novel? A novel is not a wild thing, sir, it is a civilised thing. It is a tool through which Man may reach above and beyond the dirt and filth of his origins.' Paul Kingsnorth's hilarious and perceptive essay on...
Books coming out this month also examine endangered languages, the lingering effects of colonialism and how war hurts the environment.
Books coming out this month also examine endangered languages, the lingering effects of colonialism and how war hurts the environment.
therevelator.org
Contest - deadline is the end of August.
The novel, for all its care for the ‘lowly’ characters, brims with the descriptions of the vibrantly rich flora and fauna of the riparian region. Its endemic birds, animals, plants, flowers and trees besides the changing hues of the sky and the moods of the...
The English translation of a famed 1974 Tamil novel lets a broader audience take in the ethos of a subaltern people in a fecund Dravidian belt
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This woman is like a soul sister, seriously. I have these same thoughts.
Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand THE STOLEN CHILD William Butler Yeats This…
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