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Stone Talks brings together poems and four essays by Alyson Hallett on the subject of stones, somatics and our relationship with our environment. It invites us to listen again to the world around us, reawakens a childlike curiosity, makes connections we had forgotten, and gives us permission to experience the world in an embodied, vibrant way.

We notice people who don't walk normally. We notice ourselves when we don't walk normally. There is, it seems, an intense, invisible pressure to walk normally. Straight is the gait. For about 9 months, two walking authors/artists, Alyson Hallett and Phil Smith, found themselves wrestling with not being able to walk normally. They wrote to one another about it and, amongst other things, reflected on: prostheses; waddling; Butoh; built-up shoes; walking in pain; bad legs; vertigo; falling (and fallen) places; hubris; bad walks; scores for falling down; walking carefully; disappointment. This...

Although mostly concealed, our bedrock geology profoundly determines what we see around us - not just our landforms, but the built environment too, from Aberdeen, often called the "granite city" to Bath, constructed from honey-coloured limestone- rocks shape the world around us. In Cornerstones, some of Britain's leading landscape and nature writers consider their relationship with the ground beneath their feet. Distinguished by a strong sense of place and close observation, these essays take the reader out into the landscape and convey the tactile heft, grain and rub of the rock, showing how...