This is so beautiful. And so ... blinding.

"Simply put, light pollution is excessive and inappropriate artificial light at night." - darksky.org

"Let there be night" - Paul Bogard

"See the dark. Be awake in its ancient cradle" - Lyanda Lynn Haupt

#nocturnal #nightphotography #wildlife

The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin is a beauty, with maps & sketches by Ursula, essays & interviews with @davidnaimon.bsky.social and others, edited by @suchmayer.bsky.social, published by @silver-press.bsky.social to accompany the exhibition.

#naturewriting #booksky #magic

Instead of having a shower today I had a dip in the river. Tested it first - under 0.05 phosphate. All good and bracing!! #nature #river #kentnature

The moment has come again for me to leave socials for a while. Still a few events here and there and I’ll post the odd story when there’s work to share but otherwise I’m off here now to write, write, write for a few months, maybe more.

Be well, see you in time x

#OldNows

Woot!

Best start to the week is sharing The Feminist Art of Walking is now an actual book, I have an actual box of them actually singing to me from the sofa. THANKS @plutopress.bsky.social and all walk with me.

Pre-orders www.plutobooks.com/978074535100... Please RT x #psychogeography #WalkingArt

@thelrm.bsky.social arrived today - can't wait. Interested to see how Eastbourne got in there! Love a bit of #psychogeography

Kulmbo - proto-celtic word meaning THREAD - of weaving or tale or story. On our night retreat we wove with rushes and herbs. We wove in stories of mothers and grandmothers in nature. And oh! Their stories - tigers in the garden, mothers on mountaintops. #writing #writingcommunity #night

"Water voles should be common ~ For them to be threatened with extinction across an entire country is an indictment .." Good news @amyjanebeer.bsky.social reintroduction + American mink management = ~ ~ evidence of the water vole! These are vole 'needles in sedge stacks' along the River Darent.

Late adopter alert - but not embarrassed. The writing is so evocative of embodied sensory experience - I feel the river ripple through @amyjanebeer.bsky.social "I know how the tresses of water crowfoot ... move in sinusoidal waves" - and "leaves scatter sunlight into whispers" lush, lush, lush.

Our Independent Bookshop of the Month is Lala Books in Camberwell, recently crowned one of the coolest neighbourhoods in the world. We spoke to owner Danielle.

faber.co.uk/journal/independent-bookshop-of-the-month-lala-books/

'The historical silencing of women has clearly created an appetite for angry and vengeful female characters that doesn’t look like it will be going away any time soon.'

Lucy Nichol explores narratives of female vengeance in Issue 107 mslexia.co.uk/magazine/lat...

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity

Looking forward to giving a lightning talk on night wilding this Saturday in Easts Dulwich. Join?? momence.com/Oru-Space/Li...

Have I missed any? Loving the women-led night journey zeitgeist - so good to know I am not alone out there 🌘🔥 ~~ :-)