Climate change grief: some resources

First published on 1st April, 2019 – A week and a half ago I wrote here about my ‘climate change … More

Climate Sorrow: A found poem, by Susie Orbach

Climate Sorrow To come into knowing is to come into sorrow. A sorrow that arrives as a thud, deadening and … More

Here are my most popular blog posts of 2019. As you will have seen, I am taking a brief sabbatical … More

In Mind in Society, his seminal book on learning and thinking, the Russian philosopher and psychologist Lev Vygotsky said this: … More

Climate Sorrow To come into knowing is to come into sorrow. A sorrow that arrives as a thud, deadening … More

The main difference between weather and climate is the timescale that they each refer to. Weather describes the conditions of the … More

There’s an old Mel Brooks routine where the psychiatrist tells his patient, “Listen to your broccoli, and your broccoli … More

As we get to the business end of Lent, in the week the church still names Holy, I have been … More

I’ll admit it straight away: I didn’t last the whole week. Sometime on Friday evening I switched the radio … More

A week and a half ago I wrote here about my ‘climate change conversion’, not from unbelief to belief, but … More

Towards the end of her Greenbelt Festival poetry reading Q and A with Sasha Dugdale in 2017, Rebecca Goss said … More

There I was, a normal Saturday, coffee and The Guardian, propped up in bed with the old iPad, flicking through … More

As I say in my full length review of Jo Shapcott’s Of Mutability, really good books about cancer are rare. Really … More