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PAUL EVANS: A POETIC SPIRIT

Why have you created a collection of poetry “to rewild the spirit”?

I have been a writer, naturalist and conservationist all my life. I’m interested in rewilding as a cultural as well as an ecological concept and I’ve always thought literature was a way of connecting the

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