12/05/2025 / 12/05/2025 by markhaworthbooth
On Tuesday the University of Exeter ran an in-person and online launch for We Are Here, a deeply moving book of poems by the Ukrainian soldier poet Artur Dron’. The university formed an editorial team – including Fiona Benson (see Blog 19) – to help translate this major book. The translator, Yuliya Musakovska (also a poet […]
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29/04/2025 / 29/04/2025 by markhaworthbooth
Photo: Caroline Lucas MP addressing Extinction Rebellion demonstrators 1 May 2019 A few days ago I chatted with Extinction Rebellion (XR) colleagues in North Devon about the movement and its future. I found myself stressing that XR had already achieved a major objective by prompting the House of Commons to declare a Climate Emergency on […]
22/04/2025 by markhaworthbooth
In a week of so much horrible news, I start with something very positive – the waterwheel turning at Hele Mill in the video above. Rosie and I visited Hele, just east of Ilfracombe, to deliver leaflets for Cllr Sara Wilson, the splendid Green Party candidate in the county elections on 1 May. Hele Mill […]
10/03/2025 / 10/03/2025 by markhaworthbooth
The moth that appeared on our summerhouse door to announce Spring on 1 March, which featured in Blog 10, is a Dotted Border, Agriopsis marginaria, which flies Feb-April. The female is flightless and the larvae feed on many broadleaved trees and shrubs – info kindly given me by the North Devon moth expert John Breeds. […]
06/03/2025 / 06/03/2025 by markhaworthbooth
I have read poems from The Thermobaric Playground to the local branch of the Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) on two occasions. The book, published in 2022, opens with a section on my North Devon habitat. There is another section on birds. The renowned botanist and DWT organiser Mary Breeds asked me to join her in […]
13/01/2025 / 14/01/2025 by markhaworthbooth
Cookham-on-Thames Over the past week I was involved with the sudden crisis in local government inflicted on us by Labour ministers, while also spending time with the paintings of one of England’s most popular artists and with my comrades in the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. First, following on from Blog 2, Devolution (Devo) and Local Government […]
