Karen is a researcher and writer in residence with Lancaster University’s Future Places Centre. You can read about the Centre and Karen’s work here

‘Anthem for Cumberland.’ Commissioned long poem to celebrate the Cumberland authority, performed as part of Carlisle fundraising fire show 2023, with fire sculpture designed…

An abridged version of this essay is published on the Dark Mountain website.  ‘Plastic comes from oil and like everything else on Earth, the…

Here are some links to my Guardian Country Diary entries – you’ll find the rest listed on the Guardian website. Bluebell woods on the…

The painting was made by my friend Szabi as an homage to one of the last slender-billed curlews seen anywhere in the world; the…