New music for solo cello by Sally Beamish and Lisa Heute links letters from John Newling appealing for a closer relationship with nature John Newling Dear Nature Sally Beamish composer Lisa Heute composer Reece Straw film maker Eighty-one letters written over 81 consecutive days. Letters that confront our ongoing relationship with Nature; letters that question, confess and address. Socially engaged artist John Newling’s letters to Nature form a poetic manifesto for our relationship with the natural world. Part impassioned plea, part exercise in truth and reconciliation, they are written frankly and intimately as if to a loved-one, attempting…