The Garden and Things That Buzz

I am not the best gardener. I am not proud of this fact. My cack green handedness was planted early. … More

Glimpses of Inbetween

Hypnotic road hum of car engine city skyline falling behind possibility of space in front inner monologues unravelling with the … More

‘Thin Places’ by Kerri ni Dochartaigh weaves the troubled political history of Derry with the personal life of the author … More

The wind is ca’ing ootside strewing leaves aboot, thunderin agin cauld stane n’ whistlin doon lums moanin an lowin lik … More

Mountain Storm The sun is sliding behind a mountain gilding its edges in gold and turning valleys into creeping blacks. … More

From here to there is a road up a hill. It begins in a tunnel of trees where crows live, … More

Reading the following essay, penned in March 2020, I was glad to find it better than I remembered (I had … More

The garden is waking up, I think it was the dazzle from the daffodils that finally did it, for months … More

I prefer silence to noise, wild places to cities. I choose minimal before clutter and haikus over poetry. I like … More

Can Wild Places Heal Us? A question for The John Byrne Award 2020. Walking in the hills of wild places … More

A small hand stitched book about mountains, haikus and the colour blue. To buy this book visit my online shop … More

Blue Things I like: 1. The sky on a sunny day 2. Bluebells, Forget-me-nots and Comfrey flowers 3. The sea … More

Daffodils wave at the passing breeze Great Tit’s sing to the spring air Moon orbits over nightfall.Rocks ignite waves into … More

Cloud lines on string Cut out hills leave space In a blue blanket On this spring morning Nature has a … More

I have started mapping through various scales and time with writing as a descriptor and director of various aspects of … More

“It is only through the senses that we experience what it means to be fully human. It is only through … More

An exploration of the possibilities of eco-acoustics as an artistic/poetic listening practice in relation to a reading of poetry … More

Ingela Ihrman is a Swedish artist and ‘We Thrive’ at Cooper Gallery is her first UK solo exhibition. Ihrman explores … More