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A great selection of titles in the 2025 Climate Fiction Prize longlist. Have you read any? More for the 📚

https://climatefictionprize.co.uk/2025-prize/longlist/

VIII
What do the tall trees say
To the late havocs in the sky?
They sigh.
The air moves, and they sway.
When the breeze on the hill
Is still, then they stand still
They wait.
They have no fear. Their fate
Is faith. Birdsong
is all they‘ve wanted, all along .

——-Wendell Berry, A Timbered Choir

I love the title of this poetry collection. It‘s like the trees are singing!
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How are you getting on with our November #buddyread
This image really made me pause. The thought of such a magnificent living tree turned into a dance floor is mind-boggling. 🫣

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#NatureLitsy 2025 #BuddyRead list.

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We have our first snowfall in Derbyshire. ❄️

Seems a good opportunity to remind you of #NaturaLitsy last #buddyread of 2024, Giles Whitwell's Snow - The Secret Life of Snow (2019).

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This is a gorgeous photograph by the late Tony Evans, the photographer mentioned by Richard Mabey in the second chapter. I wish there were more of his photographs in the book (there's only one), especially some of those he talked about in depth.
But I found some of his work here: https://www.tonyevans-timelapse.com/landscape
Let me know if you find his photo of the ancient decaying pine with marigolds, I'd love to see it.
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To answer my last post:
“Then he went to the moors of Inverness-shire and brought home a photograph of an ancient pine stump (...) heraldically studded with five marsh marigold flowers, kingcups rampant. They were rooted in damp crevices and pits in the rotting wood, portals into the boggy northern past, and Tony had achieved what he always insisted photography was incapable of, showing something that was not there.“
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“If photography can stop time, freeze it, representational painting contains it, not just because its making takes time, and therefore incorporates it, but because it can hint at what might have gone before and might come after. Might it be possible for the photograph of a plant to have something of this painterly quality, and record not just an isolated moment but suggest the organism's past and the invisible dynamics of its life? “
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#NaturaLitsy 2025 #buddyread list.

All are welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

There are some absolute gems on this list. Thank you to all of you who put forward recommendations. It wasn't an easy choice. I've checked that they are all widely available.
I'm so excited to be reading these with you.

I will link all of these titles in the comments. I best get writing to 🎅 with my 📚 list.

#Naturalitsy #LitSolace #HyggeHourReadathon

I was going to spend my #HyggeHour with Trixie Belden but I really wanted to start this one. Accompanied by white chocolate with peppermint chips from Maui.

Tonight‘s mood is mellow & a little sleepy. Gearing up for another busy week & a trip to Kauai for the day tomorrow to finish up helping with benefits open enrollment. It makes for long days-but it‘s a good way to meet people & see our branches.