Holdfast by Annette Skade Christmas25 by post or over the

by post or over the phone

in the twilit zone between city and country

running at enemy hordes

bird of winter creates a redemptive language to speak the darkness of being sexually abused by a family member

Holdfast by Annette Skade Christmas25 by post or over theConfined by lockdown to her home in Bantry Bay and witnessing its changing face in a time of environmental degradation, Annette Skade began to comb the landscape and archives of her locality in search of connection to the life of one of its most famous residents: nineteenth century botanist Ellen Hutchins, who collected hundreds of seaweeds, lichens, mosses and liverworts and discovered several new species in the course of a short life spent tied to