invitation
A small-format companion publication to Emergence, the chunky annual ‘connecting the threads between ecology, culture, and spirituality’, Requiem, Invitation and Celebration is a hardbound anthology of fifty seasonal practices, inviting readers to reconnect with nature’s ‘sacred rhythms’. Inspired by the Japanese tradition of ‘kigo’—a word or phrase signalling a season within haiku—the collection encourages presence and an attentiveness to subtle and often overlooked transformations in the cyclical natural environment. Spanning an abundance of seasonal sensorial experiences, examples include an orchestra of bird chatter, dry soil carrying the memory of water, torrential rain meeting skin and the quiet of light’s absence. On the Journal At work with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee: ‘We released our first print edition, an annual, in September 2019. It pulls what we felt was the best work we published online from our first four issues into a print experience. It’s comprised not only of essays, interviews, poetry, and photography from those issues but also print adaptations of films, virtual reality, and multimedia experiences.’ READ MORE emergencemagazine.org