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Estuary Festival

There are landslips eating the fields

£3.50

This booklet is FREE - the small charge is to cover postage and packing.

There are landslips eating the fields is a collective offering from Decolonising Botany + Rose Nordin for Estuary 2025. When the estuary speaks, what rises elsewhere, simultaneously? This book is an invitation to slip with the land into cacophony - looking closely through transhistorical layers of rewilding and reclamation.

From gorse flowers to cần nước, from Hadleigh Farm to Manila Bay, the book gathers stories that slip sideways - of migration, resistance, and rooted kinship among re-wilders. It traces these shifts, questioning how number-driven colonial operations shape land, water, plants, and bodies.

We looped and anchored back to our first coming together at Liverpool Biennial in 2021, where we spoke about rewilding knowledges—a returning point in our ongoing dialogue. Rolling a tongue from the hill of Hadleigh Farm, across reclaimed landscapes and newly cut waterways, and out to the ebb and tide of the estuary, we sent a call to one another: an invitation to attend to submarine consciousness - a muddy opacity beneath the dominant orders of conservation and regeneration.