We are delighted to announce the winners of the 4th People Need Nature/Young Poets Network poetry challenge, set by poet Louisa Adjoa-Parker. Louisa asked young poets across the world to write about nature and the climate. This is particularly relevant as we head towards the make or break global climate conference COP26, taking place in […]
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Guest Blog: Ana Jenkin on the importance of poetry and protest
Having just published her e-book of poems, ‘A Natural Selection: 40 illustrated nature poems for a world in transition’, Ana Jenkin discusses protest poetry and how it can be used to help Nature and our immediate environment. writer and illustrator Ana Jenkin Poetry and Protest ‘Fine, forget Instagram, Twitter and branding. At least have a […]
National Meadows Day 2021: A Tale of Two Meadows
Wildflower Meadows have their day in the sun today, on National Meadows Day. National Meadows Day is a new thing, just a few years old, but it seems to have captured the public’s imagination and rightly so. Because Wildflower Meadows encapsulate a beautiful coming together, of people and nature, creating something sublime, which everyone can […]
New People Need Nature/Young Poets Network Poetry Competition Launched
I’m delighted to say that we have launched our fourth People Need Nature/Young Poets Network poetry competition. It’s called Poems to Solve the Climate Crisis and the challenge has been written by West Country poet Louisa Adjoa-Parker. We’re challenging young poets to respond to the climate crisis and especially in the run up to the […]
The second People Need Nature/Young Poets Network poetry challenge, on “Namedropping”. Winners announced.
The Poetry Society’s platform for young poetry-lovers, Young Poets Network, and charity People Need Nature have teamed up for the second year running to challenge young writers to explore their relationship with nature. The free-to-enter challenge received over 100 impressive entries from poets aged 8 to 25 from countries as far afield as Canada, New […]
Lodge Hill: reimagining lost landscapes – Matthew Shaw
By milesking on March 20, 2017 in inspired by nature, Lodge Hill, Public Land, re-imagining lost landscapes
On the 16th & 17th June 2016 I joined a group organised by the charity ‘People Need Nature‘ to visit Lodge Hill, Kent. Our group was made up of Naturalists, Scientists, ecologists, writers, poets, visual artists, musicians, and often a mixture of the above. These are all fairly meaningless titles through as what we really […]
Guest blog by George Wheelhouse – Inspired by Nature
My name is George Wheelhouse, and I’m a fine art nature photographer, from Bedfordshire, UK. I recently discovered People Need Nature, and it really resonated with me. During my mid-twenties I’d been working as a software developer for a couple of years, but it’s fair to say I wasn’t very happy with my work/life […]
Reimagining Lost Landscapes. Pale Blue Dot’s Jane King on the Nature of Art-Science Collaboration
This piece first appeared on Pale Blue Dot’s website. The Nature of Art-Science Collaboration Artists and scientists may be predisposed to different ways of thinking but they often operate in similar ways: they research their subjects, experiment, problem solve and practice their chosen disciplines exhaustively in the pursuit of some kind of perfection. Any […]
Reflections on Lodge Hill: Watch, by Paul Evans
Today’s blog continues the series of reflections following our expedition to Lodge Hill, part of the “remimagining lost and forgotten landscapes” project. This is the second from broadcaster and writer Paul Evans. Watch The lane down from the Lodge has a roadblock and is bordered by chain-link fencing and barbed wire. The derelict buildings […]
A World Away, So Near. Julian Hoffman reflects on Lodge Hill, Kent
By milesking on August 22, 2016 in inspired by nature, Lodge Hill, Public Land, re-imagining lost landscapes, Uncategorized
A World Away, So Near On May 19th 1924, the BBC made history with its first live broadcast of a wild animal, setting its microphones and sound equipment in the leafy Surrey garden of cellist Beatrice Harrison as she performed a duet with a nightingale. Against all of the expectations of BBC founder Lord Reith […]