Rebecca Tamás, poet and environmental non-fiction writer, guest edits a series of articles exploring how ritual can help us to connect more deeply to the difference of the nonhuman, and ground us in our environments. The work explores how the embodied action of ritual, be it intimately personal or shared with one’s community, can create deep links to the rhythms of nonhuman life; rooting us in the environments that make our own life possible. Each writer demonstrates that ritual can be a way into understanding the living world, and our own bodies and minds, at a time of environmental crisis.
The series features essays by Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Abi Palmer, Daisy Lafarge and Bhanu Kapil, on topics including the relationship between ritual and cats, microscopes, belonging and song; showing the dizzying variety of ritual experience – its intensity, its joy and its possibility.
