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What happens if we imagine rivers as having lives, deaths––& even rights?theguardian.com/books/2025/apr… I wrote this essay about what happened to me 12 days down a vast & wild Canadian river; about hope, grammars of animacy, the rights of nature, how we must daylight buried rivers &

New episode up now. Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en, with guest Kaliane Bradley in conversation with John Mitchinson and Andy Miller. backlisted.fm/episodes/238-m…

1st May marks 6 years since I became a published writer, with a memoir about flapping at Easington Greyhound Stadium. That piece has taken - & is still continuing to take - me to writing places I never dreamt possible. So grateful to be one of Kit de Waal's #CommonPeople!

An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.

On today's Backlisted Podcast we discuss a book that has the merciless clarity of May sunshine - Lauren Elkin joins Andy Miller, nickybirch and me to discuss her sparkling new translation of Les Belle Images (The Image of Her) by Simone de Beauvoir. backlisted.fm/episodes/239-t…

A reminder that Backlisted Podcast has its own Backlisted Bookshop on Bookshop.org where you can buy all the books mentioned in today's episode (and all the 238 previous ones). Buying there supports the podcast & indie bookshops 🙏 uk.bookshop.org/lists/episode-…

The countryslidepod trio took a trip to London to celebrate the launch of Words From The Hedge. Huge thanks to James Chiavarini for hosting us at his temple to Wild Food 'La Palombe' lapalombe.co.uk. Thanks to John Mitchinson and Patrick Galbraith for the kind words.

The bliss of going rogue. A wonderful interview with Patrick McCabe in the Irish Times Culture on the publication of GOLDENGROVE by Unbound irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

RIP Paul Durcan. This was the first poem I read by him, and it absolutely broke me.

A short report on an event at Mostly Books on Friday: The lovely joe dunthorne in conversation with John Mitchinson on his new Jewish family memoir Children of Radium. annabookbel.net/an-evening-wit…

A new Backlisted Podcast in which we discover why our guest Nina Stibbe refused to review her fave book The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 at the time... with Andy Miller and nickybirch (who has never laughed so much)... backlisted.fm/episodes/240-t…