Erth Praze

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How can we honour the Earth while also acknowledging our own embodied situatedness upon it and complicity within its crisis however lightly we strive to walk upon it? Bringing together ecologically-aware poems written primarily since moving to West Dorset this collection strives to explore that challenge drawing upon experiences while long-distance walking wild swimming wild camping cycling travelling on trains across continental Europe and spending time deeply embedded in nature. Both local and globally-minded and featuring poems inspired by the Jurassic Coast Wessex Ridgeway Cornwall Brittany Ireland Vienna and Turkey </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Erth Praze </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>offers a paean to Planet Earth while also expressing the pain and hope of being alive in perilous times.</span></p><p></p>