Writing tagged: ‘Ben Myers’
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Book review: ‘Cuddy’ by Benjamin Myers
Something akin to a multi-media experience, mixing poetry, prayer, play-script, journal entries, and prose.
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Newsletter No. 19: ‘Comfort Reading’
Melissa Harrison · Tim Dee · Horatio Clare · John Mitchinson · Ronald Blythe · Mary Beard · Benjamin Myers · Zack Arias · Eric Newby · greenland sharks · Maunsell forts · England rugby · Charles Darwin (obviously)
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Book review: ‘The Offing’ by Benjamin Myers
Summer friendship in the North Riding.
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Book review: ‘Under the Rock’ by Benjamin Myers
The poetry of a place.
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Newsletter No. 14: ‘The terror Carter’s warriors’
Liverpool · chinese warriors · Ben Myers · shoes on wires · Patti Smith · Wuthering Heights · stratigraphy · astronomy · ancient DNA · storm petrels · LIMONCELLO ICE CREAM!!
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Newsletter No. 13: ‘Bramblings!’
bramblings · wheatears · Mary Beard · Beaker folk · Meera Sodha · recipes · John Tyndall · Eunice Foote · religion · Ben Myers · Austin Kleon · Walter Benjamin · giant sloths · Shetland · Neil Ansell · Charles Darwin
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Newsletter No. 6: ‘A borrowed dog’
woodpeckers · ambrotype portraits · W.G. Sebald · a deserted hamlet · mission creep · prime meridians · W.H. Hudson · podcasts · street photography · bonkers · tapirs · coiners
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Book review: ‘The Gallows Pole’ by Benjamin Myers
18th-century Yorkshire meets the Sopranos: intrigue, betrayal, murder, and revenge in the Calder Valley.
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Newsletter No. 5: ‘Incongruous owl’
dawn chorus · Simon Armitage · the invention of the telescope · huge, sprawling collaborations · Withnail & I · book smells · re-assembling Darwin’s research notes · converting walks into words · Daniel Dennett · writing letters · humanist politics · dentistry with stone tools · analysing penguin poo · Melissa Harrison · Robert…
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Going physical
In which I get out there in meat-space.