Matthew Oates' "Beyond Spring" Limited Edition Hardback
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This is the only place you will be able to buy the hardback version of Matthew Oates' new book - a winter armchair read, full of heart.
Backers: 46
Average Pledge Per Backer: £84
Funded: £3,886 of £3,750
Dates: Apr 5th -> May 29th (55 days)
Project By: Nadia Kingsley
Backers: 46
Average Pledge Per Backer: £84
Funded: £3,886 of £3,750
Dates: Apr 5th -> May 29th (55 days)
Project By: Nadia Kingsley
£3,886
current pledge level
Last Updated: May 29 @ 07:14 -0400 GMT
103%
of goal
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Latest News
Hooray Hooray and THANK YOU!! 
May 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Hooray hooray hooray!! Thanks to you we have reached our goal - and the kickstarter campaign is fully funded - with 24 hours to go! The opportunity to buy the limited edition Hardback is still open for the next day - but I am sitting back and... (Read More)
Listen to Matthew Oates :)
May 27th - via: kickstarter.com
In November 2015, as part of Fair Acre Press’ Maligned Species project – I met up with Matthew Oates, along with my soundman, in Cheltenham – to record him talking about Stinging Nettles. Here is the resulting podcast… If you enjoyed this... (Read More)
Introduction to Matthew Oates' new book
May 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Below - is part of the introduction to Matthew Oates' book BEYOND SPRING: Wanderings through Nature. It will make a fabulous present - Christmas, Birthday... especially as you will be able to say it is a limited edition; and maybe you will want... (Read More)
77% funded... and in to the last week...
May 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Hoorah! We have been 77% funded as I write this, 8 days before the campaign is closed. As I'm sure you all know - Kickstarter is an all-or-nothing campaign so I do hope people start noticing and reading about Matthew Oates' book - and the campaign is... (Read More)
Printers Open Day
May 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Yesterday we went along to the new printers I want to use for Matthew Oates' book BEYOND SPRING - Wanderings through Nature. It was a 6 hour round trip - with another 5 intensive hours there - but wow was it worth it! I knew I would enjoy the guided... (Read More)
Who else is in BEYOND SPRING?
May 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Here is a list - in alphabetical order - of poets and writers - both dead and living - that you can find extracts and full poems within Matthew Oates' forthcoming book BEYOND SPRING - Wanderings through Nature : Alison Brackenbury Angela... (Read More)
Extract from Matthew Oates' BEYOND SPRING
May 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Matthew Oates, in his newest book BEYOND SPRING: Wanderings through Nature - writes the following extract My heart is bursting with joy over Matthew's book - I sense it marks a huge leap forwards in Nature-writing, I hope you enjoy it as much as I... (Read More)
Our Track Record
May 17th - via: kickstarter.com
A really good friend of mine, the best, made the very sensible comment on the phone the other day - that all the possible Kickstarter backers out there - they don't know me, my high standards, the fact I am often at the computer at 4 am to be sure I... (Read More)
Pledge as a guest, without "subscribing"
May 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Kickstarter says: "Pledging to a project used to mean that new users had to register for a Kickstarter account, which may have been a hurdle for some new backers. With the launch of Guest Pledging, people who choose not to create an account now have... (Read More)
A tweet from Matthew Oates :)
May 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Matthew Oates (@NTMatthewOates) tweeted at 10:01 pm on Mon, May 15, 2017: My baby's gone! Just sent final author revisions for #BeyondSpring off the publishers @fairacrepress. This book is my masterpiece... so I rushed to my inbox and there it is :)... (Read More)
Matthew's Notebook
May 15th - via: kickstarter.com
By the time Matthew and I met at his house, in April, I had already read his manuscript through, plus gone through it sentence-by-sentence, editing it with him. What an absolutely joyous experience that was.... He is such a pleasure to work alongside... (Read More)
Follow Matthew on Twitter
May 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Its the only way I can be sure where he is! and he writes and shows such gorgeous things :) Nadia x @NTMatthewOates Tweets, current page. 11.4K Following 922 Followers 5,336 NT Specialist on Nature. Lover of butterflies, wild places, cats, weather.... (Read More)
Manuscript shaping up beautifully!
May 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to a retired professional proof reader, who offered her services free to Fair Acre Press - Matthew Oates' manuscript of Beyond Spring has gone through its first full proofreading and is back with Matthew. Annie will kindly look at it again... (Read More)
Extract from Beyond Spring.. in Arts Council England funded project: DIVERSIFLY
May 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Around where I live, you can tell when spring is coming when there is a marked change in the birdsong. And this starts in January; building, building into such excited chatter by May Day that it is almost too much to bear. Before that, the soundtrack... (Read More)
New subtitle for BEYOND SPRING - Hoorah!
May 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Draft of BEYOND SPRING cover with new subtitle (Read More)
a few days late - but here is part of Matthew's book, BEYOND SPRING...
April 26th - via: kickstarter.com
from Chapter 15 A Flower for St George Flowers in the wisdom of creative choice Seem blest with feeling and a silent voice from Shadows of Taste by John Clare A slow spring is no bad thing, as a fast-track spring almost invariably... (Read More)
Permission from Laurie Lee Estate
April 26th - via: kickstarter.com
I have great news - that the Laurie Lee Estate has agreed to allow us to include an extract of his writing in BEYOND SPRING by Matthew Oates It is from Laurie Lee's book The Three Winds.. and will appear at the start of the chapter called On Selsey... (Read More)
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