Anna Selby

Human-Plant Entanglement: Thinking with Plants in the Anthropocene is a new book edited by Ratul Nandi, Jagannath Basu & Jayjit Sarkar that includes 11 essays. This Critical Plant Studies collection "redefines the boundaries of phytocentric scholarship" brill.com/display/title/…

Ecology lecturer wins Moth Nature Writing Prize irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via @IrishTimesCultr

We're delighted to announce the winners of this year's Moth Nature Writing Prize, as chosen by Cal Flyn! Massive congratulations to Anna Selby, who is this year's first prize winner with her poem 'Acairseid Mhòr, Gometra'. Read on for all the details... irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

Devon’s looking pretty heavenly for our nature through Poetry and Memoir week at @TotleighBarton next week. There are still a few spaces for what is shaping up to be a productive, searching, dreamy week with @thenaturetable and I… arvon.org/writing-course…

10 days to go until this Poetry & Memoir course in beautiful Devon. You'll learn to transform the natural world from a mere setting to an active participant in our lives with @jadeAfitton and @Anna_Selby. Only a few places left!

Rather than an Author of the Month for August, we’re celebrating Daphne Warburg Astor – artist, poet, publisher, passionate environmental advocate and good friend of the shop – who sadly died last month lrb.me/hazel

@hazel_press @KatrinaNaomi @HelenMort @Anna_Selby Our Book of the Week is the latest pamphlet from @hazel_press, GREENCOMBE by Ella Duffy, a collection of 29 interlinked poems walking through Greencombe Gardens in Somerset Find out more here: lrb.me/jn3

In Devon @Anna_Selby and I will be starting September by exploring imaginative ways to write memoir and poetry through the prism of the natural world. We’ll be tutoring at @TotleighBarton—a total dream of a space to stay and write. Hope to see you there.. arvon.org/writing-course…

Listen back to our first event with @hazel_press, celebrating their 2021 pamphlets SAME BUT DIFFERENT and O, with readings from @KatrinaNaomi, @HelenMort, Belinda Zhawi, Ella Duffy, Maggi Hambling, Georgie Henley & @Anna_Selby Listen here: lrb.me/7ku

Do join us, or share if you’d like to find new and imaginative ways to write about the living world - bit.ly/ArvonCourse 💚 @jadeAfitton and I are running a creative writing course for @arvonfoundation with guest #MarchelleFarell Sept 2 - 7 at Totleigh Barton in Devon, UK 🌿

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📚 Elementals vol. 3 cover reveal! Vol. 3- Water is edited by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic. What can the vital forces of Earth, Air, Water, & Fire teach us about being human in a more-than-human world? 🌊 Pre-order here: humansandnature.org/elementals Design: Mere Montgomery @limeredstudio

🌞This beautiful hazel structure outside the College is the result of a final project of our MA Arts & Ecology student @FlickFerdinando and it looked great in this morning’s sunshine! If you are passing by any time soon take a moment to go in and see how you respond to it…

Looking for some poetry inspiration? We're teaming up with @PeoplNeedNature and poet @pollyrowena to challenge you to write about how sound shapes our relationship with nature. Think dawn choruses, rustling leaves, and more... Enter by 3 May: bit.ly/YPNSongworlds

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HUGE congratulations to our brilliant friend & tutor @Anna_Selby🎉

Anna Selby is commended the National Poetry Competition 2023 for her poem ‘Liberty Caps’. Anna is a poet, intersectional environmentalist and naturalist. Her chapbook, Field Notes, was an LRB Bookshop’s Bestseller for two years running. Read more: poetrysociety.org.uk/npc

This Saturday @Right_2Roam will head to Vixen Tor on Dartmoor to highlight the fragmented nature of our current access model - by visiting an 'access island': Land on which we have a right to roam, but have no lawful way to reach... theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/f…

An 'access island' is a place where the public has the right to roam - but has to trespass to get there. Absurd! There's at least 2,500 access islands in England, research by the great @curiousways @Right_2Roam has found. Time for a new Right to Roam Act bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Looking for poets / poems / writers work that contains a felt presence - of the body &/or location.. that explores the present (writing) moment in some way… any ideas? At the moment I am thinking @Anna_Selby ‘s ‘Field notes’ and @lasanalfabetas