John Anthony Beard's illustrated journal The Flora of Cannock Chase documents his visits to Cannock Chase, where he sketches and paints the flora of the area and includes beautiful watercolour studies and step by step guides on how to make your own studies of nature.

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We are working with Hongwei Bao on Dream of The Orchid Pavilion his first poetry pamphlet, drawing on different cultural references, informed by his life experience being a queer Chinese diaspora currently living in the UK, which ruminates on love, intimacy, memory, cultural heritage and identity.

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In 353 CE, a group of Chinese literati gathered at a place called Orchid Pavilion drinking rice wine and composing poems. What might have happened that night? What might have been on their minds and in their dreams? What if they could time-travel to today’s world, to the Middle of England in the twenty-first century?

 

 

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