The Book of Bogs : Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and other Peatlands by Anna Chilvers & Clare Shaw (Eds)

This is an anthology built from a shared passion for often overlooked and threatened landscapes — bogs and other peatlands. And like peat, this book is full of living things, including stories. Stories of scientific study, archaeological discovery; personal stories of suffering and growth.

Stories in fiction and fact; in poetry. Stories of damage and threat; of Walshaw Moor; of adventure and love; the peatlands of Papua New Guinea, the Flow Country, Cors Caron and much more.  This anthology from more than forty writers steeped in the landscape of the moors includes poetry, stories and essays from deep in the peatlands – a collection that delves deep into bogs, the glow of moss, black water and the sweep of moorland, the heather burning, the whisky tang of peat. It is a collection of nature, of history of myth.

This book is a collaboration between The Boggarts, a group of writers working to protect peatlands, and especially Walshaw Moor, Little Toller Books and Bluemoose Books. The contributors are: Robert Macfarlane, Amy Liptrot, Patti Smith, Horatio Clare, NicolaChester, Alys Fowler, Gwynneth Lewis, Guy Shrubsole, Polly Atkin, Louis Bailey,Naomi Booth, Anne Caldwell, Claire O’Callaghan, Anna Chilvers, Jane Clarke,Amanda Dalton, Jasmine Donahaye, Ella Duffy, Glyn Edwards, Abbi Flint, VictoriaGatehouse, Melanie Giles, George Gunn, Sally Huband, Ian Humphreys, JenniferJones, Emma Linford, Carola Luther, Michael Malay, Bunty May, Kim Moore, DavidMorley, Donald S Murray, Gregory Norminton, Sonia Overall, George Parr, PascalePetit, Anita Roy, Clare Shaw, Harriet Tarlo, Amanda Thomson, Johnny Turner,Sophie Underwood, Annie Worsley.

Edited by:Anna Chilvers, Clare Shaw
Format:Paperback / softback
Publisher:Little Toller Books
Imprint:Little Toller Books
ISBN:9781915068514
Published:15 Sep 2025
Classifications:Yorkshire, Anthologies (non-poetry), The Earth: natural history general