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An exciting and eagerly anticipated full-collection debut from a hugely talented poet. “Exuberantly raw and playful, Samantha Walton’s first collection Self Heal engages passionately with questions of identity, consumerism, gender, and humanity’s relationship to the natural environment. To self heal means to live amid a dizzying array of worldly demands, requiring all the abundance of humour, compassion, and intelligence this debut has to offer.”Carrie Etter “Here it is, the long-awaited collection by Samantha Walton! Self Heal is infused with passion and politics -- you could say that the poems are love poems, but unlike any you’ve read. With exhilarating wit, Walton declares the exchanges, vital or aggrieved, between the living stuff of the world: ‘the swabbed mystery of the connection/ between your body & the gross/ understatement of your environment’. These brilliant, acutely beautiful, deliciously mordant poems will tendril their way into your psyche.” Lila Matsumoto "You can open up your head and rub these poems on your brain when you want to feel better about the wreck: they’re “heal” poems, as the title says: Samantha Walton’s Self Heal opens to what blows between working streets and windy sky: “under the scolded / boots of the Poor Law / press the kissed field” and out comes love “to rub a mind across a meadow” in the company of saucy language bodies saying “call me / x”." Lisa Samuels, author of Symphony for Human Transport and Foreign Native

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Harnessing new enthusiasm for Nan Shepherd’s writing, The Living World asks how literature might help us reimagine humanity’s place on earth in the midst of our ecological crisis. The first book to examine Shepherd’s writing through an ecocritical lens, it reveals forgotten details about the scientific, political and philosophical climate of early twentieth century Scotland, and offers new insights into Shepherd’s distinctive environmental thought. More than this, this book reveals how Shepherd’s ways of relating to complex, interconnected ecologies predate many of the core themes and concerns of the multi-disciplinary environmental humanities, and may inform their future development. Broken down into chapters focusing on themes of place, ecology, environmentalism, Deep Time, vital matter and selfhood, The Living World offers the first integrated study of Shepherd’s writing and legacy, making the work of this philosopher, feminist, amateur ecologist, geologist, and innovative modernist, accessible and relevant to a new community of readers.

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'Beautifully written, intimate and intellectually fascinating' Nathan Filer ‘This book represents, genuinely, a moment of ground-breaking importance for how we think about nature, access and wellbeing in late capitalism’ Dr Alice Tarbuck ‘Impeccably researched . . . A call to us all to find a place within the simplicity and complexity of nature’ Lara Maiklem, bestselling author of Mudlarking Everybody is talking about the healing properties of nature. Hospitals are being retrofitted with gardens, and forests reimagined as wellbeing centres. On the Shetland Islands, it is possible to walk into a doctor’s surgery with anxiety or depression, and walk out with a prescription for nature. Where has this come from, and what does ‘going to nature’ mean? Where is it – at the end of a garden, beyond the tarmac fringes of a city, at the summit of a mountain? Drawing on history, science, literature and art, Samantha Walton shows that the nature cure has deep roots – but, as we face an unprecedented crisis of mental health, social injustice and environmental devastation, the search for it is more urgent now than ever. Everybody Needs Beauty engages seriously with the connection between nature and health, while scrutinising the harmful trends of a wellness industry that seeks to exploit our relationship with the natural world. In doing so, this book explores how the nature cure might lead us towards a more just and radical way of life: a real means of recovery, for people, society and nature.

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