Writing
Filter writing: Sidelines (blog) • Newsletters • Reviews
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Book review: ‘Man of Iron’ by Julian Glover
Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain.
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Book review: ‘The Making of the British Landscape’ by Nicholas Crane
How we humans shaped the landscape of Britain, from the Ice Age to the present.
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The Welsh side
In all my years visiting the Dee Marshes, I had never looked across them from the Welsh side.
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Going physical
In which I get out there in meat-space.
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One day my prints did come!
In which I geek-out over some high-tech print-production apparatus.
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Year of Getting Stuff Out There
2017 is to be my ‘Year of Getting Stuff Out There’.
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Book review: ‘Poetry Notebook’ by Clive James
Sorting the poetic wheat from chaff.
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The joy of the familiar—and the unfamiliar—on a local patch
Getting to know a place well means knowing what to look forward to, and appreciating when something unusual happens.
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An atheist somehow manages to tell right from wrong
To think of all the deliciously immoral acts I could have been getting up to today, if only it had occurred to me I needn’t be impeded by any sense of right or wrong.
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Book review: ‘On Writing Well’ by William Zinsser
The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction.