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Under A Metal Sky by Philip Marsden, out this week, is the very best sort of nonfiction. "Gosh, I didn't know that!" nuggets on every page, a nice vein of Cornish connection running throughout, and towards the end a sustained lode of pure travel writing gold. Highly recommended.

Thanks, Charlie..... and I thought Featherhood a masterly book - and hugely enjoyable.

Out now - Yuvan Aves’s book ‘Intertidal’ is a joy to read… urgent and beautiful spectator.co.uk/article/the-co…

World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study theguardian.com/environment/20…

Thanks, Guy

From Monday - Radio 4 Book of the Week bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Governments must ban destructive bottom-trawling in Marine Protected Areas to allow marine life, fish populations & ecosystems to thrive. Which country will step up next? Oceana Oceana UK independent.co.uk/climate-change…

In conversation with the great ecologist / campaigner Yuvan Aves. The first outing for my new book 'Under a Metal Sky'. M.Yuvan instagram.com/a_naturalists

See this Instagram post by @counterpointpress instagram.com/p/DIO1MdXPD_C/…

Philip Hoare’s brilliant take on William Blake

Just finished this beautifully written book by Philip Marsden , a wonderful exploration of our relationship with metals and a tour around the mineral hotspots of Europe. Superb.

Today - April 24 - is the commemoration of the Armenian Genocide. Still not recognised by many nations, still denied by Turkey.

Stone Club... a wonderful and mildly eccentric group dedicated to uncovering the poetry in rocks.

Cornish tin helped kick start Europe's Bronze Age... more evidence theguardian.com/science/2025/m…

Cornwall’s maerl looks to be in a perilous state - just as awareness its importance is growing instagram.com/reel/DJtBvA2qN…

Looking forward to this Stone Club event

This week, Helen Czerski and I have become metal-heads. Copper, lithium, cobalt, nickel, and many more. Those elements so vital to our green energy future but their mining can harm people and planet. A necessary evil? With Philip Marsden Iola Hughes Pierre Josso

If you, like me, get off on rocks this is the book for you! Philip Marsden approaches geology in #underametalsky with a poet’s touch - revealing beauty, myth, and moral depth in the mineral world. It’s a classic of the genre. Couldn’t recommend more.

youtube.com/watch?v=2II62B… Here's a short film I've been working on about the rare maerl and seagrass beds in St Mawes