Granta 102: New Nature Writing
By (Author) Jason Cowley
Granta Magazine
Granta Magazine
7th July 2008
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
820.8036
288
Width 145mm, Height 210mm, Spine 21mm
445g
As long as people have been writing, they have been writing about nature. But nature - as we know it - is changing. Economic migration, overpopulation and - most significantly - climate change are shaping the natural world into something unfamiliar. Instead of providing a respite from the urban landscape, the natural world now reflects our mistakes; our abuse; our politics. As our conception and experience of nature changes, so too does the way we write about it. Granta 102 will be a seminal collection, addressing lost worlds, vanishing species, the race for control of the Arctic and the popularisation of man-made art intended to replicate the aesthetic experiences we once found in the wild. Contributors include Robert Macfarlane, Jonathan Raban, Nadine Gordimer and Isabel Hilton.
Jason Cowley is the new editor of the Granta magazine. He was previously editor of the Observer Sport Monthly. He was literary editor of New Statesman and a long-time contributing editor for Prospect, for which he now writes a literary column. He was recently shortlisted for the newspaper magazine editor of the year in the British Society of Magazine Editors Awards.