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Writing tagged: ‘Ben Myers’

Newsletter No. 19: Comfort Reading

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

Book review: ‘The Offing’ by Benjamin Myers

‘The Offing’ by Benjamin Myers

Summer friendship in the North Riding.

Published 31-Dec-2019
Filed under: Writing Genres: Fiction Tags: Ben Myers, reviews

Book review: ‘Under the Rock’ by Benjamin Myers

‘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

Newsletter No. 14: The terror Carter’s warriors

Terracotta 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

Newsletter No. 13: Bramblings!

Male brambling
Male brambling

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

Newsletter No. 6: A borrowed dog

Millie

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

Book review: ‘The Gallows Pole’ by Benjamin Myers

Gallows Pole

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

Newsletter No. 5: Incongruous owl

Sunny bunny
Sunny bunny.

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

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

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    In which I gatecrash a podcast, and share cool stuff by the likes of: Melissa Harrison · Luke Turner · Werner Herzog · Merlin Sheldrake · Robert Macfarlane · Gaby Wood · Caught by the River · Philip Hoare · and a host of talented extras.
  • 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)

RSS Recent Sidelines

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    There’s been snow on the ground since before Christmas, and throughout the first week of the year.
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    A vixen screams.
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    A conversation with a friend about the books that have brought us comfort over the years.
  • 27 December 2020
    The offcumden squirrels have been making nuisances of themselves again.
  • End of a streak
    My 32-year streak climbing the same hill in North Wales on Christmas Eve has come to an end. 😕

RSS Recent Articles

  • Giving fiascos a bad name
    How not to make a simple three-minute podcast piece.
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    To mark the 300th anniversary of his birth, a brief account of Rev. Gilbert White’s influence on Charles Darwin.

RSS News

  • 2020: a year in photos
    My tenth annual video slideshow.
  • Bats podcast piece
    I make a guest appearance in episode 16 of Melissa Harrison’s podcast ‘The Stubborn Light of Things’. Here’s an extended version.
  • 2019: a year in photos
    My ninth annual video slideshow.

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