EA Festival 2025: Renaturing

In this three-way conversation with William Sieghart aptly named after James Canton’s new book, James and fellow author, Chloe Dalton, describe their different approaches to nature writing. The uncharacteristic life circumstances of COVID-19 allowed Chloe, a high-flying political consultant, to take in and raise a hare. This chance decision enabled her to see a completely different kind of life through the eyes and rhythms of the animal, an experience she documented through her book, Raising Hare. James’ book, Renaturing, in comparison, was not the product of serendipity but a conscious search for how to reframe the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, to a human scale. In this session, we will discover how their experiences  – of nature and writing - have intersected. 

This event is co-produced with Essex Book Festival.