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Louise Kenward
@louisekenward.bsky.social
Writer, Artist, Psychologist
MOVING MOUNTAINS
PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni.
Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com
Rep'd by @portyliterary.bsky.social
A huge thank you @edbookfest.bsky.social @rkrystalli.bsky.social @atarbuck.bsky.social Rowan Jaines & @portyliterary.bsky.social - everyone who came along & asked wonderful qus & @pollyrowena.bsky.social for photos on stage.
Fantastic to meet people I've long been in touch with & to make new friends
August 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
If the welfare reform bill goes through tomorrow- even with the so called concessions- millions of disabled people - now & in the future- are at risk. No one wants to be disabled.
Disability isn’t a life choice. Supporting those who are is a choice #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare #WelfareReformBill
June 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Delighted to get my hands on an early copy of this (sadly) eternally necessary book. Published the day the government votes on planned cuts to disability benefits, 3rd July.

Congratulations @rachelcdailey.bsky.social on this excellent book @hurstpublishers.bsky.social #disabilityjustice #BookSky
June 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
To celebrate the publication of Moving Mountains in Australia and New Zealand, I spoke to Sophie about the challenge of 'just getting outside' when living with illness & disability (& when you'd like to do nothing more)

#BookSky #NatureWriting
@portyliterary.bsky.social @wearefootnote.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Lastly, for now, if you haven't already read Moving Mountains, there are a number of people living with ME/CFS who have contributed to the book - do take a look if you'd like more diverse voices in #naturewriting & a wider representation of ME #MEAwarenessDay
May 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Hastings you are as brilliant as I remember!

What a wonderful evening to launch the paperback edition of Moving Mountains & to celebrate its release in the US & Canada. Thanks to Gwendoline & Barnaby for having us & Hastings Book Fest, Lee at Printed Matter for bringing & selling books -
#BookSky
May 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Psst…have you heard? Moving Mountains is out in the US & Canada this week!
Ooh that’s very exciting, I’m off to preorder a copy, make sure I don’t miss out.

#BeMorePigeon
#pigeons - not as daft as they seem, eh?@portyliterary.bsky.social #NatureWriting #Birds #DisabilitySky #Chroniclllness #BookSky
May 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
EVENT next week:

#Hastings #BookFestival fringe at Barnaby's (Robertson St) next Wednesday 6pm-7.30pm with Isobel Anderson, Lorna Crabbe, & Printed Matter Books.

#disability #nature writing - readings & Q&A

#BookSky
[access for wheelchairs to venue but steps to toilet]
May 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I also found copies of Moving Mountains at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social bookshop #London!

#BookSky #NatureWriting #DisabilitySky

...my micro book tour! Signed copies are now at Wellcome Trust too!

- Moving Mountains is out in the US and Canada next week -
May 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Last week I made it to London!

My first trip in many years & I was at last able to find copies of Moving Mountains in the excellent bookshop @wellcomecollection.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social

- MOVING MOUNTAINS is out in the US & Canada next week! -

#DisabilitySky #NatureWriting #BookSky
May 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
11 years ago, the day I passed my Adv PADI dive qualification. I'd already been sick once & recovered - this was my new plan, to travel & dive. I was working on a seahorse conservation project - written about in Moving Mountains & Women on Nature - I went on to get sick again #waterborneparasite
April 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
These geese are very keen to tell you that MOVING MOUNTAINS is available now in paperback in the UK & will be released in the US and Canada in May, & Australia in June!

#australia #canada 🇨🇦 🍁 🇦🇺 🇺🇸 💚🏔🏔🏔preorder now!🏔🏔🏔
(geese racing to order theirs)
#NatureWriting #BookSky #Poetry #CreativeNonFiction
April 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Peeking between the covers of Moving Mountains introducing some of the contributors & content…this week is ‘Water’.

..themes of water run through the book - from oceans to rain, rivers & ponds. I am also dwelling on Linda Hogan's line: “To enter stone, be water.”

louisekenward.substack.com/p/water
April 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
In addition to the beautiful writing, prose & poetry, are wonderful illustrations by Lorna Crabbe, with her Birdwoman drawings, & prints by @dawncole.bsky.social of artificial flowers, that book end the contributions - all of which is wrapped carefully in the cover, designed by Alice Marwick
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April 10, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I still pinch myself at all the people who have work in this incredible anthology. By way of introductions, I've put together a short thread of who & what you are likely to find in Moving Mountains.

If you're curious to find out more take a read...
#30DaysWild #NatureWriting #DisabilitySky #BookSky
April 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
...Also in the final section 'Earth' is the lyric piece 'the poet limps in words as a balance for worlds' by Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social - an artist, poet, & writer, Alec's work focusses on place & ecopoetics - his books are listed here: www.alecfinlay.com/books
#MovingMountains 💙📚💙
April 9, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Beyond 'Moorland', the collection in Moving Mountains returns to the Earth - with a final section to writing centred on the ground - contributors work here includes Jamie Hale (CRIPtic Arts & Shield), Eli Clare (Brilliant Imperfection, The Marrow's Telling, & Exile and Pride), & Kate Davis (Flow)📚💙📚
April 9, 2025 at 6:21 AM
After 'Trees' comes 'Moorland' - with work from Rowan Jaines, Feline Charpentier @felinecharpentier.bsky.social & Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social (Wanderers, Waymakers, & Pathfinding @reaktionbooks.bsky.social) - Moving Mountains is out now in paperback & due for release in the US & Canada
April 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Excited to be taking Moving Mountains to #Hastings next month! Readings and conversation with Isobel Anderson & Lorna Crabbe (and me) & books with Printed Matter Hastings - Barnaby's Lounge, Robertson Street, Hastings - I look forward to seeing you there - masks welcome. #NatureWriting #Hastings
April 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Following 'Weather' is 'Trees' - with new work from @mailbykite.bsky.social [amuk & Ultimatum Orangutan - @ninearchespress.bsky.social ], @atarbuck.bsky.social [A Spell in the Wild: A Year & Six Centuries of Magic] & @nicwilson.bsky.social [Land Beneath the Waves]
Moving Mountains is out in May (US)
April 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Along with sections on Water & Air is a series of pieces on Weather - including @pollyrowena.bsky.social (Some Of Us Just Fall & The Company of Owls), Abi Palmer (Sanatorium & Slugs: A Manifesto) & Carol Donaldson (On The Marshes & The Volunteers) #MovingMountains out in US/Canada 6th May.
April 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Ahead of MOVING MOUNTAINS launching in the #US & #Canada (6th May) I'm introducing the anthology here...
After the section titled 'Water' is 'Air' - with new work from #poet Hannah Hodgson & @marbledmayhem.bsky.social, a #poem & prose by Louisa Adjoa Parker, #CNF by me & poetry by @jaxxi.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Starting with the first section of MOVING MOUNTAINS - #water - a theme that runs throughout - there are beautiful pieces of new writing by Sally Huband [Sea Bean], singer/songwriter Isobel Anderson [CHALK/FLINT], poetry by Jane Hartshorn [Tract], & @beewyld.bsky.social [All My Wild Mothers]

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April 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOLS!

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MOVING MOUNTAINS WILL BE OUT IN THE US AND CANADA IN MAY!!

Follow this thread for more details...
April 1, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Now that MOVING MOUNTAINS: WRITING NATURE THROUGH ILLNESS & DISABILITY is out in paperback in the UK I am beyond thrilled to announce that it will soon also be available across the Atlantic!!

MOVING MOUNTAINS IS OUT FOR PUBLICATION IN THE USA & CANADA ON 6th MAY
AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW!
#BookSky
April 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM