Granta 102: The New Nature Writing (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1929001320 ISBN 13: 9781929001323

Publisher: Grove Press, Granta, 2008

Synopsis

For as long as people have been writing, they have been writing about nature. But nature as we know it is changing. Economic migration, overpopulation, and climate change are transforming the natural world into something unfamiliar. As our conception and experience of nature changes, so too does the way we write about it. In this special issue Jonathan Raban goes on the road in the American West; Kathleen Jamie dissects a human colon; Matthew Power squats in the Bronx; Paul Farley and Niall Griffiths write about escaping the inner city; Edward Platt goes inside Israel’s bird plague zones”; Robert Macfarlane and Justin Partyka ghosthunt in the fens; Richard Mabey searches for the Fortingall Yew; Benjamin Kunkel drops out in Colorado; Philip Marsden ponders the mystery of Cornwall’s ancient stones; and Donovan Wylie photographs the demolition of the Maze prison. Also Seamus Heaney, Mark Cocker, Anthony Doerr, Jim Holt, David Heatley, Roger Deakin’s notebooks, poetry by Sean O’Brien, and a new short story by Lydia Peelle.

About this title

About the Author:

Jason Cowley is a journalist and editor. He is editor of the New Statesman and a former editor of Granta and a former senior editor at the Observer. He is the author of Unknown Pleasures, a novel, as well as The Last Game: Love, Death and Football, a memoir.

Review:

"An overwhelmingly powerful force in English writing."

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press, Granta
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1929001320
• ISBN 13: 9781929001323
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Cowley Jason