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Louise Kenward
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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
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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
Flat lay of Moving Mountains at Edinburgh - book laid out with badge to festival, jar of rhubarb jam from Caro Clarke, a bright green FPN2 face mask and box of migraine tablets. four women on stage talking with each other, large screens either side and audience members in darkness in foreground. Edinburgh International Book Festival in type with logo above and central. Four women standing smiling at the camera. blue ribbon with ID tag that reads: Edinburgh International Book Festival, LOUISE KENWARD, Author.
August 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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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
red and white warning sign with text that reads 'stop danger of death' standing in the woods, a backdrop of greenery and trees.
June 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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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
A copy of a green coloured paperback book with white title text and author details and two flags, black background with turquoise, yellow, white and red wavy diagonal stripes across them. Alongside the book is a sheet of white paper with a press release.
June 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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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
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May 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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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
Book cover to Moving Mountains - multi-coloured water colour effect natural objects across an indigo background - includes a feather, pebble, leaves and snowflakes.
May 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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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
three women sitting at tables in the window of a bar with sign writing behind them. copies of Moving Mountains piled up on a table with a flower in a vase. Three white women smiling into the camera.
May 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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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
Copy of Moving Mountains on a bookshelf with a sticker that reads 'signed by the author'. Two pigeons whispering to each other. Group of three pigeons chatting to one another - one looks very curious, the other two looking very pleased with themselves. Two pigeons off to order their copies of Moving Mountains.
May 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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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]
Poster with a cover of Moving Mountains and text as in post.
May 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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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 -
Me, a white woman in a sleeveless black dress with a black face mask, signing a copy of Moving Mountains at British Library bookshop. A white woman in a sleeveless black dress with a black face mask signing a copy of Moving Mountains. Bookshelves showing copies of Moving Mountains.
May 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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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
Me, a white woman in a black dress and mask, wearing glasses, looking and smiling at the camera holding a copy of moving mountains, about to sign it. Bookshelves at Wellcome Collection bookshop, showing a brilliant collection of disability books, including Moving Mountains, Frances Ryan's Who Wants To Be Normal? and The Anti-Ableist Manifesto. Me, signing a copy of Moving Mountains, wearing a black face mask and dress. Copies of Moving Mountains with a close up of hands putting a sticker on that says 'signed by the author'.
May 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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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
a picture of me, a tanned white woman with my blonde hair pulled back, wearing a swimsuit on the edge of a boat, the sea sparkling in the sun behind me.
April 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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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
four white geese in increasing speed racing towards the camera across a green. Inset image of Moving Mountains.
April 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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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
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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
💙📚💙 🗻🗻🗻
A book of Moving Mountains held up against the sky with an old stone building in the background beyond a lack and trees.
April 10, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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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
a copy of Moving Mountains leaning against a carved stone surrounded by pink and white petals.
April 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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...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 💙📚💙
A book with an indigo cover and multicoloured natural objects including a feather, pebble, leaves, snowflakes, raindrops and lettering that reads: 'Moving Mountains: Writing Nature Through Illness and Disability' Edited by Louise Kenward with a foreword by Samantha Walton. It appears to be floating in a dark abyss with blurred coloured images from the cover.
April 9, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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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)📚💙📚
Moving Mountains cover - dark indigo background with multicoloured natural objects and text. book cover of Brilliant Imperfection - image of brown-pink pebbles with one solitary green one. book cover for Flow by Kate Davis, a grey knitted material threaded with blue ribbon. screen shot from Jamie Hale's website - four images of Jamie in their wheelchair covered in white drapes, they are dressed in white with white wing like structures either side, the next is the book cover for Shield, then a dark background with them in a spotlight and the word inspirational in lights in an arc above, finally a purple image of them in a bed beneath the night's sky.
April 9, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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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
A copy of Moving Mountains leaning against a tree surrounded by fallen red leaves and grass.
April 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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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
Poster with information in the text - Wednesday 7th May 6pm-7.30 at Barnaby's Lounge, with a picture of the book.
April 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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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)
A book with an indigo cover and multicoloured natural objects including a feather, pebble, leaves, snowflakes, raindrops and lettering that reads: 'Moving Mountains: Writing Nature Through Illness and Disability' Edited by Louise Kenward with a foreword by Samantha Walton. It appears to be floating in a back background with blurred coloured images from the cover.
April 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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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.
Image of Moving Mountains book on a wooden bridge surrounded by out of focus greenery and leaves.
April 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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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
a dark background with blurred colour images from the book cover which is in the foreground - images from the natural world of leaves, seaweed, a feather and pebble are on the cover of Moving Mountains.
April 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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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
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THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOLS!

📚💙🌱🪺👣🗻🌊🪴

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

Follow this thread for more details...
A book with an indigo cover and multicoloured natural objects including a feather, pebble, leaves, snowflakes, raindrops and lettering that reads: 'Moving Mountains: Writing Nature Through Illness and Disability' Edited by Louise Kenward with a foreword by Samantha Walton.
April 1, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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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
A stack of books on their side and one propped up so you can see the cover, all of Moving Mountains: Writing Nature Through Illness and Disability - an indigo cover with multi coloured objects from the natural world - of leaves, seaweed, a feather, a pebble, snowflakes and raindrops.
April 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM