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Winterkill
Cal Flyn
‘Wildlife foundations find themselves calling for the deaths of tens of thousands of wild animals.’
Swifts
Adam Foulds
‘Swifts come closer than any other creature to living in the sky and having air and ceaseless movement as their home.’
Animal Studies
Elliot Ross & Alexander MacLeod
‘The title of this series of photographs is Animal Studies, but I am not sure about that second word. A noun or a verb? A thing or an action? Are these studies of animals or are these animals studying?’ Alexander MacLeod introduces the photography of Elliot Ross.
The Farmer’s Son
John Connell
‘I’m twenty-nine and I’ve never delivered a calf myself. But that’s all about to change’
The Falconer and the Hawks
Ben Crane
‘A fine balance of precision and coiled unsparing instinct, all contained within a gossamer skein of feather, skin, muscle and bone.’
Magpie
Esther Woolfson
‘His life was one of calculation and endeavour, of learning and watching, remembering and trying.’
Loggerheads
Rebecca Giggs
‘What idiom or instrument captures how the weather is felt by the animals, in their bodies, their nests and niches?’
Large Black Rooster
Daniyal Mueenuddin
‘Early one morning in the month of June, someone ran over a huge black rooster on County Road W in Wisconsin hill country.’
The Bible As Literature, Literature As Scripture
Stuart Kelly
'Literature and literary criticism took me away from the Church as a teenager, and literature and literary criticism brought me back to it later.'
Jeremy Gavron | Notes on Craft
Jeremy Gavron
‘Is the conventional novel the closest model we have to our condition? Or simply the bedtime story that most comforts us?’
Above the Tree Line
Teva Harrison
Teva Harrison visits and illustrates the Northwest Passage through the Canadian arctic for Granta 141: Canada
