Words from the Brink Hisham Matar He trained as a classical

He trained as a classical singer but grew up in jazz

until we close with hope: David J

They are the bones

Edited by Karen Lord

award-winning botanical artist Christina Hart-Davies celebrates our long relationship with trees

Words from the Brink Hisham Matar He trained as a classicalFor Solstice Shorts 2021 we invited writers to respond to the growing climate crisis. From an exceptionally strong field we chose stories and poems that respond to the floods and droughts and fires all around the globe with tenderness, compassion, fear, grief and rage. Gaia is represented in all ther power and glory, and butterflies and plants sow seeds of hope, while other writers ask: How do we stop it? How do we survive it? And how do we live