The Clearing - Essay
The Edge of the Village: Displacement, belonging and the land we leave behind.
I’ve been awarded Arts Council England funding to develop my creative practice over the coming year. I’ll be travelling to India, Norfolk and Germany and working with brilliant mentors as I research and write a book proposal for my first longform creative nonfiction book - a blend of memoir, cultural history and place-based research exploring ideas of migration, ecology, land and belonging.
‘Shifting Sands’ is the first thread in the journey, an essay that appears in Little Toller’s journal of nature, place and landscape, The Clearing.