If You Go Down to the Woods Today…
Kate Marks and Tracey Falcon’s polyvocal creative text, with artwork and audio, explores spinal cord injury and movement within the human and non-human environment.
From Pandemic Stress to Nature Connection
A quiet practice of attention, belonging, and rest in urban parks from Yewande Okuleye.
Illness and Nature Writing 1: Some of Us Just Fall Book Review
Milena Schwab-Graham reviews Polly Atkin’s Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better (Hodder & Stoughton, 2023), a memoir which combines feminist disability justice and nature writing.
‘Creative Adaptation is our New Task’: Art and Chronic Illness
Artists Alec Finlay, Katie MacLachlan and Brighid Ó Dochartaigh reflect on art as witness to erased realities (part two of two).
Chronic Illness and Creative Recuperation
Three artists with Long Covid discuss their process of creative recuperation.
The Book of Illness
Artist-poet Alec Finlay and artist-writer Louise Kenward consider the generative and activist roles of witness and patient-led medicine, in reference to Moving Mountains, Kenward’s anthology of poetry, prose, essays and artwork exploring nature through a disabled perspective.
Storytelling and Chronic Illness – An Evolution of Time and Place
Writer and psychologist Louise Kenward explores the links between illness writing and writing about place, nature and travel.