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Bomb Gone
Owen Sheers
‘We had been driving along the Bay of Wrecks on the eastern coast of Christmas Island for over an hour and a half when we saw the flock of terns.’
Jim Magee’s Hill
Pamela Petro
‘No one who’s seen The Hill has been able to describe it to me without visceral discomfort. Actually, no one’s been able to describe it at all.’
Encounter: The visions of Kurt Jackson
Mark Cocker
‘A thing of colour and elemental contest and of beauty.’
Subject+Object
Seamus Heaney
‘Birch is the tree of desire, ashimmer with sexual possibility even when it arrives swathed in botanical Latin.’
Pathologies
Kathleen Jamie
‘It felt surprisingly good to be part of that rough tribe of the mortal.’
The Tree of the Cross
Richard Mabey
‘Spending the first half of my life in the Chilterns, in southern England’s chalk country, I grew up with yews.’
