Latest writing …
The Guardian Country Diary
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nicola-chester
Countryfile Magazine
https://www.countryfile.com/people/opinion/
Review of a stunning new anthology of Claire Leighton’s Rural Life, published by The Bodleian Library, in Caught By The River … https://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2023/10/clare-leightons-rural-life-nicola-chester-review/
Planet Pod Podcast (link here) https://embed.acast.com/5f9174fdb2be4547528b1fa1?feed=true
Interview in The Guardian with Jon Moses: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/18/nicola-chester-gallows-down-conservation-resistance-north-wessex-downs-berkshire
Little Toller’s The Clearing Curation. Nicola was invited to curate a series of writing on the themes of On Gallows Down, from six brilliant writers with wonderfully diverse responses … https://www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/place-protest-and-belonging-by-nicola-chester/
The Museum of English Rural Life (The Merl) 51 Voices Project: Birds and Men: An essay on a groundbreaking book from 1951, and a reflection on the fortunes of farmland lapwings. https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/01/Object_42_-_Birds_And_Men_-_The_MERL-51_Voices.pdf
The Museum of English Rural Life (The Merl) 51 Voices Project: Model Thresher. Read and hear Nicola read her poem in response, ‘And All the Hats Have Left the Village.’ https://merl.reading.ac.uk/collections/merl-object-collection/model-thresher/
Caught By The River, Shadows and Reflections … ‘And I am struck then, in the light of that perfect, too-warm autumn afternoon, where motes of a naturalist’s, tithe barn dust spin in columns like gnats, that in many ways, he and I are doing similar things ..’ https://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2021/12/shadows-and-reflections-nicola-chester/
Caught By The River, a review of Vron Ware’s book, Return of a Native. https://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2022/04/return-of-a-native-vron-ware-review/
Podcasts …
Countryfile Plodcast Join Nicola and Annabel Ross for a breathless and giggly walk (and a short trespass) up Gallows Down, in The Countryfile Plodcast … https://www.countryfile.com/podcast/wessex-downland-writing-protest/
The Stubborn Light of Things by Melissa Harrison https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-19-ritual/
Interviews …
Nicola interviews fellow West Berkshire resident (see? That seam of resistance?) Nick Hayes, author and illustrator of ‘The Book of Trespass’ for Caught By The River. https://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2021/09/nicola-chester-and-nick-hayes-in-conversation/
Nicola gleefully took part in Henry Rothwell’s enigmatic Notes for the Curious, Grave Goods … what would you take with you? http://notesforthecurious.com/grave-goods-nicola-chester/
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