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Paperboats Zine

The urge to explore and celebrate all the kinds of lives of Planet Earth is stronger than ever, but the environmental and ecological crisis demands we also lift our eyes, and our voices, to species extinction and habitat loss, to what is happening to the forests and hills, the rivers and seas, our streets and gardens. The writer’s instinct to pay attention has never been more vital. Literature can help us to see the natural world – and our place in it – differently.

Writing

Storm Bebet

Hid’s blowin a hoolee, bit I geed oot a luk efter dinner wae the camera.  A job tae stand apace long enough tae tak photos.

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Maerl Time

What are we searching for, really, when we search for cowries? Out on the skerries, the four of us are bent double.

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Cairn by Kathleen Jamie

Jamie’s latest collection, Cairn, refuses to be about any one thing. Hillsides, are graced with tormentil and turbines. A tanker carries oil through Glen Esk.

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Paperboat floating on on the Scottish Parliament ponds among leaf-litter.

Ghost Boats

The Splendid Poison Frog,
Spix’s Macaw,
the Bramble Cay Melomy,
the Moorean Tree Snail,

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