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A Field on the Edge of England

In the hinterland beyond the last rows of houses, where the town peters out into farmland and straggling industrial sites, there is a place, wide...

Swimming to Neverland

Two years ago, I found Neverland. Unlike the island Barrie described in his famed works, this one isn’t in some tropical place full of flamingos...

Issue 14: Survival

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 14th edition, on the theme of ‘survival.’ Many thanks to all contributors and the editors...

Silk Roads: British Museum

This magnificent exhibition celebrates and expands the concept of the ‘Silk Road’. The derivation of the Silk Road began in the 18th century reflecting on...

Fingers Stretched Out Towards The Sun

In Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England’s Colonial Connections (2020), postcolonial literary scholar Corinne Fowler named Louisa Adjoa Parker along with other writers...

Issue 13: Fire

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 13th edition, on the theme of ‘fire.’ Fire: /ˈfʌɪə/ origin: Old English fȳr (noun), fȳrian...

Departure Point

Every river seems to have a place like this; somewhere small boats go to die. The rotting fibreglass carcasses of forgotten pleasure craft and Sunday...

Fishkids

This is the furthest I’ve ever been from the centre of Leicester. I was born there and haven’t moved since. We all know about the...

Cemetery Conversations with My Dead Dad

In 2019, I returned to London for the first time since 1990. I remembered the city vividly, both because I’d looked at the photos countless...

Yinka Shonibare CBE

British Nigerian Yinka Shonibare returns after two decades to the Serpentine Gallery with a compact greatest hits exhibition plus bonus tracks. A constant is his...

Issue 12: Cities

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 12th edition. In this issue, we present work on the theme of ‘cities,’ whether in...

A Meditation on Japanese Gardens

Perfectly trimmed pines, cherry blossom petals meticulously swept from beds of moss, frolicking forbidden: public gardens in Japan got me thinking. What do our gardens...

Seaweed Project

Slippery and glistening, merely one cell in thickness, the kelp throbs with life, clinging on tight to the rocks even with the waves thumping against...

Stations of the Sun

Performing in Edinburgh’s world-renowned annual ritual theatre show, the Beltane Fire Festival in the mid-90s with a new tattoo of a Pictish Boar on my...

Doing A Geographical

Half the world’s population of Manx shearwaters—small, albatross-like seabirds—breed on Skokholm, a tiny island off the coast of Wales. Before World War I, two ornithologists...

Death and Other Possible Futures

The archivist’s hair was bright red, and she had painted in a black streak. She stood out in the Canterbury Museum office, surrounded by neat...

A Review of Future Imperfect

There is one sentence in Babette Gallard’s novel, Future Imperfect (LightEye 2023), which continues to haunt me: ‘If someone had shown me this future before,...

Headstrap

This captivating chronicle delves into the untold story of a community that has played a significant role in mountain exploration and climbing in the Himalayas....

Future Imperfect

The streets are a spider’s web of new tributaries. Everything is under water. Don’t worry about us, but nothing is the same anymore. I was...

Down the Road

Welcome to Manchester! You! Yes, you! Alright? We’re starting in town and then heading south. The city centre has always been “town” to us. Here...