Treasures: Poet in the Jungle

heading for the Amazon,
past the great
volcano Coto Paxi,
muzzle
of a giant animal
rising 19,000 feet
from its base,
snow covered,
waiting to pounce
resting,
waiting:...

Open: The Road on the Moss

There are some journeys that stay with you. They don’t need to be epic Himalayan treks or rainforest expeditions. I was 10 or 11 when I took my brother’s old bike, a decrepit racer with a worrying squeak, and set off to cross Chat Moss alone. It was the first time I can remember leaving the familiar landscape of home and school behind me for no other reason than to see what lay beyond it. The landscape of my childhood wasn’t pretty, but it had a strange, slightly menacing beauty.

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War & Peace: An Interview with Paul Kenyon

I’ve often thought that the interview is a separate genre of literature, right up the with the trio of poetry, prose and drama, above ‘genre’ in the narrow American sense where just about everything gets the label. There is dialogue so there are elements of drama. It is written in sentences, with each response forming an integrated whole, in the manner of a short story, something capable of explication. Lastly, an interview where participants have struck a balance is a perfect thing akin to verse.

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Bio: Julia Knights

“Wandering through a pristine forest, breathing pure air on top of a snow-capped mountain, swimming in the world’s deepest freshwater lake… Travel is the permission to experience nature, the awareness of something greater than ourselves.”

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Issue 7: Dawn

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s DAWN issue. This bright, awakening, and challenging composition comprises a multitude of world views, places, and experiences. We explore new beginnings, transitions, dawnings, and realisations. New landscapes are explored. New places ventured. New experiences, in familiar environs, are retold. New is often seen as positive, yet change is often more complex, and we look at this too. With our return comes an expanded scope. Whilst retaining a core travel emphasis, we have added ‘place’ and ‘nature.’ Essays in Panorama have always been place-based but this increased focus on the natural world opens up new avenues to explore. With this in mind, we have added a new Ecology & Conservation Editor, Julia Knights, who uses this first issue to speak with world-leading botanist Ghillean Prance. The result is an enlightening and frightening conversation about the Amazon rainforest.

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Dawn: Fire in the Mind

Imagine, for a moment, a Cézanne who, rather than attempting to picture the structure of Mont Saint-Victoire and of every part of the natural world through “the geometric forms: the cone, the cube, the cylinder, and the sphere”, instead attempted to picture it through the idea and form of fire (Cézanne 1904). Imagine that this alternate universe Cézanne took the idea of picturing the world in terms of the structure of fire, where all matter was energy, all energy was active, and all activity was a transferral of energy, both physical energy and psychic energy.

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Dawn: The Amazon Rainforest: In Conversation with Ghillean Prance

The Amazon rainforest, spanning nine countries of South America, is the world’s largest ecosystem and the most biodiverse place on earth with around 80,000 species of plants alone. Vital to regulating the global climate, it is also home to around two million indigenous people.

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Space: It All Means Everything

The Super Blood Moon

South across the river, it was rising over the silhouettes of trees to fill the sky. It was close, seemed to be getting closer, and the creamy yellowness of our moon had transformed into a glowing red. The colour was not furious so much as alien, as if Mars had come from afar to orbit Earth. We had not known it was coming, but there it was, like clockwork.

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Issue 9: Borders

In this issue we have work from India, Nigeria, Philippines, Israel, Netherlands, UK, USA, Brazil, South Korea, Thailand, Germany, Italy, and more. In many ways it’s the most diverse publication to date for the breadth of contributions and the people involved.

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Borders: Pain & Joy, Loss & Recovery

Imagine visiting home after three years with a new perception of, and feeling for, your homeland. I’ll take you on a tour of Vietnam to show you not just its biodiverse beauty but also the threats facing it and its fast disappearance. There’ll be pain and joy, loss and recovery.

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Borders: The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity

We estimate there to be some 8.7 million species globally. For plants, we believe around 2 in 5 species are at risk of extinction – so around 40% of the world’s c. 350,000 vascular plants are likely to be threatened. There are several reasons behind these dire numbers: the destruction of natural environments, the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources, climate change, competition with invasive species, new pests and diseases, pollution…

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