Moving Mountains

Writing Nature through Illness and Disability

Louise Kenward

• Publisher: Footnote Press
• Year: 2023
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781804440551
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Biological Sciences

'An anthology to treasure and return to' ELINOR CLEGHORN
'Uniquely compelling, dynamic and powerful' LUCY JONES
'Deeply affecting' TOM SHAKESPEARE
'Promises to change the landscape of nature writing' LIZZIE HUXLEY-JONES

A first-of-its-kind anthology of nature writing by authors living with chronic illness and physical disability

WITH A FOREWORD BY SAMANTHA WALTON

Through twenty-five pieces, the writers of Moving Mountains offer a vision of nature that encompasses the close up, the microscopic, and the vast.

From a single falling raindrop to the enormity of the north wind, this is nature experienced wholly and acutely, written from the perspective of disabled and chronically ill authors.

Moving Mountains is not about overcoming or conquering, but about living with and connecting, shifting the reader's attention to the things easily overlooked by those who move through the world untroubled by the body that carries them.

Contributors: Isobel Anderson, Kerri Andrews, Polly Atkin, Khairani Barokka, Victoria Bennett, Feline Charpentier, Cat Chong, Eli Clare, Dawn Cole, Lorna Crabbe, Kate Davis, Carol Donaldson, Alec Finlay, Jamie Hale, Jane Hartshorn, Hannah Hodgson, Sally Huband, Rowan Jaines, Dillon Jaxx, Louise Kenward, Abi Palmer, Louisa Adjoa Parker, Alice Tarbuck, Nic Wilson

Table of contents

• Cover
• Praise for Moving Mountains
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Image Descriptions
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Water
• Field Notes by Sally Huband
• Not Healthy, Never Healed by Isobel Anderson
• Sequences of the Body by Jane Hartshorn
• On Becoming Ocean by Victoria Bennett
• Air
• An Ode to Climbing Over Fences Instead of Needing Them Open by Hannah Hodgson
• 712 Stanza Homes For The Sun by Cat Chong
• This is Not Just Tired by Louisa Adjoa Parker
• Under a Wide Blue Sky: Chronic Illness, Nature and Me by Louisa Adjoa Parker
• Things in Jars by Louise Kenward
• my body is not my country by Dillon Jaxx
• Weather
• Abi Palmer Invents the Weather by Abi Palmer
• Threatening Rain: On Bodies, Bad Weather and Bad Clothing by Polly Atkin
• The Thing I Fear Has Found Me by Carol Donaldson
• Trees
• The Clocktower and the Canopy by Khairani Barokka
• Foraging and Feminism: Hedge-Witchcraft in the Twenty-First Century by Alice Tarbuck
• A Quince in the Hand by Nic Wilson
• Moorland
• Climbing Against Gravity: on Mountaineering and Genetic Haemochromatosis by Kerri Andrews
• Endometriosis and the Female Trinity in the Peak District by Rowan Jaines
• Beats Per Minute by Feline Charpentier
• Earth
• Moving Close to the Ground: A Messy Love Song by Eli Clare
• A Natural Force by Jamie Hale
• the poet limps in words as a balance for worlds by Alec Finlay
• this is my body by Kate Davis
• Acknowledgements and thanks
• Contributors
• Resources
• Endnotes