Crafty Green Poet

Above is the front cover of a wee book I made at a Junk Journaling workshop at the Edinburgh International Book Festival . You can read more...

 Edinburgh International Book Festival has been moved entirely online this year in response to the COVID_19 pandemic. You can browse the li...

I've blogged before about how Edinburgh Council has mistreated trees and chopped down trees that probably shouldn't have been chopp...

I put together this list of nature-related events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival for Living Edinburgh . These events all stil...

Normally I go to at least a few events during the Edinburgh Festival season, but this year I hadn't gone to anything. Today though I won...

On Thursday, I prematurely claimed to write my last review from this year's Edinburgh International Book Review . I was wrong, though I ...

Today was my last day reviewing the Edinburgh International Book Festival . Thanks to the festival and to Clicket for giving me press t...

I've blogged a couple of times recently about foraging (see my posts here and here ) so I was particularly pleased to get a press ticke...

The Edinburgh International Book Festival has got its recycling all sorted with these well organised recycling bins, nicely colour coded ...

As any reader of this blog will be aware I am very interested in the human relationship with nature and so was particularly pleased to get a...

I was back at Edinburgh International Book Festival today to listen to a discussion about the role of science in fiction and the role of ...

As some readers of this blog know, I lived in Malawi for two years and travelled in Zimbabwe and Botswana. So I was particularly interested ...

Zero Waste Week starts 5 September. The theme this year is ‘ Reducing waste away from home '. You can read more about the campaign here...

Poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts collaborated on Edgelands , a book about the areas of nature that are found in and around the ...

Yesterday I read my short story Safari Blessings at the Edinburgh City of Literature Story Shop event at Edinburgh International Bo...

Robin Harper became in 1999 the first green parliamentarian to be elected in the UK, to the Scottish Parliament. Before that he had already ...

The Polish Poet Adam Zagajewski read today at the Edinburgh International Book Festival . He read entirely from his new collection Unseen Ha...

Two editors of the Idler Magazine , discussed slow living with Al Senter. As the rain poured down on the Edinburgh International Book Fes...

Julie Hill is a long standing environmental campaigner. Her new book The Secret Life of Stuff explores the environmental issues around cons...