Climate

Mike Gould

Learning from The Boss

Bruce Springsteen's brilliant 'Badlands' features these unforgettable lines: Poor man wanna be rich Rich man wanna be king And a king...

Mike Gould

Firing up

Gosh. My last blog post was in July, so something happened, or more accurately didn't happen. How did I become blocked in this my most...

Mike Gould

Unquiet slumbers for a sleepy world

" I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind...

Mike Gould

A Nightingale sang in a West Sussex park

Writing about nightingales - that's a lot of literary and musical baggage to contend with. But, hey, let's give it a go! So, earlier in...

Mike Gould

It's complicated - when is a forest not a forest?

How 'Wilding' has thrown me off the forest track.

Mike Gould

Bohemian Tragedy

Today: a poem. And a brief apology for the image. All I want to say this week is that I’m embarking on writing another collaborative...

Mike Gould

New stories of the flood

Some thoughts on floods, George Eliot and climate deniers