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Writing tagged: ‘Amy Liptrot’

Newsletter No. 21: Positively sluggish

Slug

Richard Mabey · Tim Dee · Mark Cocker · Amy Liptrot · Kathleen Jamie · Patti Smith · Alan Bennett · Melissa Harrison · Urban Birder · Patrick Wright · Clive James · and more…

Published 19-Feb-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: Alan Bennett, Amy Liptrot, Clive James, Darwin book, insects, Kathleen Jamie, LRB, Mark Cocker, Melissa Harrison, Patrick Wright, Patti Smith, Richard Mabey, Tim Dee

12 May 2020

Heptonstall

A second swift, and some spectacular light.

Published 12-May-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: Amy Liptrot, birds, Calder valley, Hebden Bridge

6 February 2020

Kathleen Jamie & Amy Liptrot
Kathleen Jamie & Amy Liptrot

A walk on the Moor, and some encouragement from my favourite writer.

Published 06-Feb-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: Amy Liptrot, Calder valley, Caught by the River, Darwin book, Hebden Bridge, Kathleen Jamie, On the Moor (book), the Moor

Newsletter No. 18: 169 in giraffe-years

Dipper

Julian Hoffman · CGP Grey · WG Sebald · Kathleen Jamie · Tim Dee · LRB · Alan Bennett · Caught by the River

Published 04-Jan-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: Alan Bennett, Amy Liptrot, Backlisted podcast, Darwin book, Julian Hoffman, Kathleen Jamie, LRB, Roger Deakin, Tim Dee, W.G. Sebald

20 November 2019

Caught by the River
Amy Liptrot

A Caught by the River event in Todmorden.

Published 20-Nov-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Amy Liptrot, Calder valley, Caught by the River, Todmorden, Willowherb Review

3 November 2019

Neil Ansell & Amy Liptrot
Neil Ansell & Amy Liptrot.

In which I finally get to meet author and online friend Neil Ansell, along with local pal Amy Liptrot.

Published 03-Nov-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Amy Liptrot, Neil Ansell

Newsletter No. 16: Snippets of nature writing

Bluebells, Hardcastle Crags
Bluebells, Hardcastle Crags

sidelines · Robert Macfarlane · Julian Hoffman · Amy Liptrot · Little Toller · Sir Thomas Browne · Tim Dee · Adam Nicolson · Julia Blackburn

Published 07-Jun-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Adam Nicolson, Amy Liptrot, Julia Blackburn, Julian Hoffman, Little Toller, Robert Macfarlane, Thomas Browne, Tim Dee

Going physical

My photos
Before the doors opened.

In which I get out there in meat-space.

Published 02-Feb-2017
Filed under: News, Writing Tags: Adelle Stripe, Amy Liptrot, Ben Myers, Calder valley, Caught by the River, Hebden Bridge, hebden's other bridges (book), photography, YOGSOT, Yorkshire

Book review: ‘The Outrun’ by Amy Liptrot

The Outrun

Recovering from addiction in the far north.

Published 26-Feb-2016
Filed under: Writing Genres: Nature & Place, People Tags: Amy Liptrot, books

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