Articles and Essays
The Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things
Inspired by a Persian miniature painting, Susan Holliday discovers that poetry is not just a way of writing about the world. It is a way of bringing forth life.
In the Belly of a Whale
In this piece for Unpsychology Voices Susan Holliday explores what nature teaches us about our own dimensions through the experience of awe
Choosing Hope
In this piece for Substack, Susan Holliday welcomes the first quickening of spring in the bleak heart of mid winter
When No One Is Watching
In this piece for Substack, Susan Holliday explores the value of ‘witness’ in a world which prizes being seen more highly than the experience of seeing
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
In this piece for Unpsychology Voices, Susan Holliday draws on ecological principles to explore the practice of ‘mattering’.
A Silence Arises
In this piece for Inside Out, the Journal of the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy, Susan Holliday illustrates how the space between words creates an opening onto a deeper experience of self.
A Sudden Strangeness
In this piece for Stravaig, the journal of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, Susan Holliday explores the ‘dream power’ of a natural world alive with revelation.
A Nature More Resilient
In this piece for the Climate Cultures ‘Environmental Keywords’ project Susan Holliday explores the nature of resilience.
Touching Nature from the Inside
In this piece for the Land Lines Nature Writing Blog, Susan Holliday revisits the role of wonder in revealing to us the hidden depths of human nature.
Lost for Words
In this piece for The Pilgrim magazine Susan Holliday suggests we need language rooted in nature to reveal the intimate ecologies of the heart.