Richard LeaJan 6, 2023

Stuart Clark looks back over 150 years of writing about the red planet in The Book of Mars. But what does this portrait of our neighbour in space reveal about ourselves?

#books #BookReview #TheTLS #space #mars

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-book-of-mars-stuart-clark-book-review-richard-lea/

Fact and fiction in an anthology of writing about the red planet

Last night, when the clouds cleared for a brief spell, I opened the window, leant out and looked east. There above the roofs and tower blocks, sailing

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Pascale PetitNov 30, 2022

Thrilled with this introduction to my poem ‘The Moor Horses’ #TheTLS Poem of the Week. I will never forget that day when the horses first appeared. Thank you Andrew McCulloch for your very kind words on my poem. #BodminMoor #BloodaxeBooks #ecopoetry #laurelprize

‘And still the horses arrive, as if they’ve descended / from petroglyphs, released from millennia carved on walls’ – Pascale Petit

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-moor-horses-pascale-petit-poem-of-the-week-andrew-mcculloch/

‘The Moor Horses’ by Pascale Petit | Poem of the Week | The TLS

Three years after it was published, Pascale Petit’s seventh collection of poems Mama Amazonica (2017) won the inaugural Laurel prize for ecopoetry. The award included a commission to write a poem about an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain. Petit’s poem “The Moor Horses”, published in the TLS in 2021, is set on Bodmin …

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