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Writing tagged: ‘Ben Myers’

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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)

Published 10-May-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: Ben Myers, coronavirus, Darwin book, Horatio Clare, John Mitchinson, Mary Beard, Melissa Harrison, Ronald Blythe, Tim Dee
‘The Offing’ by Benjamin Myers

Book review: ‘The Offing’ by Benjamin Myers

Summer friendship in the North Riding.

Published 31-Dec-2019
Filed under: Writing Genres: Fiction Tags: Ben Myers, reviews
‘Under the Rock’ by Benjamin Myers

Book review: ‘Under the Rock’ by Benjamin Myers

The poetry of a place.

Published 06-May-2019
Filed under: Writing Genres: Nature & Place Tags: Ben Myers, Calder Valley, reviews
Terracotta Warriors

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!!

Published 27-Jul-2018
Filed under: Writing Tags: archaeology, astronomy, Ben Myers, birds, Brontës, dna, geology, Patti Smith
Male brambling
Male brambling

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

Published 18-May-2018
Filed under: Writing Tags: archaeology, Ben Myers, birds, bramblings, Charles Darwin, John Tyndall, Mary Beard, recipes, religion, Shetland, wheatears
Millie

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

Published 28-May-2017
Filed under: Writing Tags: Ben Myers, birds, dogs, photography, podcasts, W.G. Sebald
Gallows Pole

Book review: ‘The Gallows Pole’ by Benjamin Myers

18th-century Yorkshire meets the Sopranos: intrigue, betrayal, murder, and revenge in the Calder Valley.

Published 22-May-2017
Filed under: Writing Genres: Fiction Tags: Ben Myers, Calder Valley, fiction, reviews
Sunny bunny

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 Macfarlane · swallows

Published 25-Apr-2017
Filed under: Writing Tags: Ben Myers, birds, Charles Darwin, history of science, humanism, Melissa Harrison, Robert Macfarlane, swallows
My photos
Before the doors opened.

Going physical

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

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