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Arts Council England to update ‘activist statements’ guidance after backlash

Funding body says it believes in freedom of expression, after policy changes sparked fears of censorship of artists

The Guardian - UK

Arts Council England mired in row over ‘political statements’ warning

Robert Macfarlane, Feargal Sharkey and Matt Haig are among artists to react with fury to message about funding risks

The Guardian - UK

You Are Wolf: Hare // Hunter // Moth // Ghost review – bursting with spirit

With Sam Lee and Robert Macfarlane guesting, Kerry Andrew shows a knack for experimentation, deploying playground rhymes, birdsong and even their radiator

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Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane: The Moon Also Rises review – celebratory and thought-provoking

The musician-actor and the writer follow their inspiring lockdown debut with another buoyant fusion of English folk and big themes

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Authors join call for Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuel

More than 150 writers and industry professionals are asking the firm, which is a leading sponsor of UK literary festivals, to drop their investments

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on the felling of Britain’s famous Sycamore Gap tree

The Hadrian’s Wall landmark was symbolic of pride and resistance. Its loss should serve as a poignant reminder of the precarity of nature

The Guardian - UK

Sycamore Gap tree attack is part of war on nature in UK, says poet

Robert Macfarlane says tree’s felling was part of hostile culture and calls for forest to be planted in its honour

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Cormac McCarthy: a powerful writer who beautifully wrote about apocalypse and extinction

Endings, extinctions, last things preoccupied Cormac McCarthy from the start to the recent close of his 60-year career as a writer of fiction and, occasionally, drama for stage or screen. His first novel, The Orchard Keeper (1965), ends with the word “dust”. His final novel, Stella Maris (2022), allows only…

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Cormac McCarthy remembered: ‘His work will sing down the centuries’

The celebrated US author of Blood Meridian, The Road and No Country for Old Men has died. Here, leading contemporaries and critics pay tribute to him

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Stephen King leads tributes to The Road author Cormac McCarthy: ‘The greatest American novelist of my time’

US author remembered for novels including ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’

The Independent UK

‘The greatest American novelist of my time’: Stephen King leads tributes to The Road author Cormac McCarthy

US author remembered for novels including ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’

The Independent UK

Writers join locals in protest against ‘neglect’ of medieval Cowpasture Lane

Robert Macfarlane among those protesting against Network Rail’s ‘inattention’ to Suffolk lane renowned for its beauty

The Guardian - UK

The Lost Spells review – enchanting musical has an abundance of magic

A cockney fox and a preening jackdaw open our eyes to the wonders of nature in this charming show based on Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s book

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‘Message to the not yet’: Olafur Eliasson plans sky mirror for Cumbria coast

Artist wins competition to create outdoor tide-trapping sculpture inspired by prehistoric carving but seeking vision of future

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Landmark decision on mega poultry farm could mean ‘life or death’ of River Wye

Welsh government considers whether to block plan after experts say manure from intensive units is turning Wye into ‘pea soup’

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Midwinter magic: Robert Macfarlane on the enduring power of The Dark Is Rising

Susan Cooper’s 1973 novel, newly adapted for a BBC audio series, has enthralled generations of children and writers with its folkloric tale of an English boy caught in a battle between light and dark

The Guardian - UK

Ronald Blythe at 100: ‘A watchful, curious and gratefully amazed vision of life’

A life rooted in Suffolk has given the great nature writer Ronald Blythe a deep love of the countryside

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Lake District slag heap could become landmark public art

Artist Roger Hiorns pitching alongside Rachel Whiteread, Piet Oudolf and Olafur Eliasson in scheme to celebrate Cumbrian coast

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North East exhibitions to see this summer from Newcastle nightlife to Northumberland wildlife

Here's a handful of inspiring and magical shows to see region-wide

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‘He died in his 30s living the life he had dreamed of’: artist Eric Ravilious

He was the first war artist to die on active service – and one of the greatest. Now, a new film, featuring Alan Bennett and Ai Weiwei, uncovers his complicated life

Evening Standard

Johnny Flynn interview: ‘Play James Bond? I can barely get myself out of the house to go for a run’

From Ian Fleming to David Bowie, a psychotic mobster to a buttoned-up Regency hero, the actor’s career has been wildly varied - but it’s music that he always comes back to

ABC News

River: Australian documentary narrated by Willem Dafoe highlights the importance and precarity of rivers worldwide

River, a follow-up to box office hit Mountain, is a history of the planet and human civilisation told via waterways, and argues that the fate of both are inextricably intertwined.

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‘People want me to say I’m alienated’: Ingrid Pollard on the myths of art, race and landscape

The artist on the important places in her life, the rise of British Black art in the 1980s – and being inspired by Steve Redgrave’s Olympics success

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‘Rivers run through us’: Willem Dafoe and Robert Macfarlane on why they made a film of the world’s great waterways

Made by the same team that shot Mountain, including director Jennifer Peedom, this stunning documentary captures the great power and beauty of rivers – and how vulnerable they are to a modern world they helped create

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Ness by Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood audiobook review – a sinister eco parable

Actor Stephen Dillane narrates the rhythmic prose poem, inspired by a Suffolk nature reserve and cold war military base

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