On The Cover Of A New Book
I was delighted to be approached by Little Toller Books to use my woodcut print of Autumn in Walshaw Dean for the cover of a new book about peatland and bogs.
Little Toller Books is a small independent publishing company based in Dorset which is
"attuned to writers and artists who seek inventive ways to reconnect us with the natural world and to celebrate the places we live in."
The Book Of Bogs has contributions from more than forty writers steeped in the landscape of the moors, including Robert Macfarlane, Amy LIptrot, Guy Shrubsole and Alys Fowler.
An anthology of poetry, stories and essays from deep in the peatlands. A collection of nature, of history, of myth.
I must admit to feeling quite proud to be associated with this publication which has been initiated in response to a dire threat to the magnificent SSSI Walshaw moor, in the form of a completely inappropriate and huge industrial wind farm complex which will destroy an enormous area of precious blanket bog and the literary landscape of the Brontës.
I would point out that there are already 3 significant wind farms spoiling the landscape round here. Why should we have another one? What makes our moor less worthy of saving than say the extensive grounds of Blenheim Palace or Sandringham for example?
For anyone interested in learning more you can read the cogent arguments on the website https://www.stopcalderdalewindfarm.co.uk/
Basically summed up as "A Hostile Act against the countryside, wildlife and people of Calderdale and Brontë Country by Calderdale Wind Farm Ltd."
A crowdfunded initiative, the Book Of Bogs is available to pre-order from https://www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/little-toller/the-book-of-bogs-edited-by-anna-chilvers-and-clare-shaw/ and is £20.