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Newsletter No. 1: Kudos to youdos

Spoonbills

Patti Smith · W.G. Sebald · Sexual Selection · Roman chicken · Robert Graves · Swallows & Amazons · Thames Estuary · James Brindley · Spoonbills

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Posted on 08-Jan-201511-Nov-2016

Prize-winning author lost on Moor

Julian Hoffman on the Moor

When your instincts and your compass disagree, trust your instincts. I mean your compass.

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Book review: ‘The Small Heart of Things’ by Julian Hoffman

The Small Heart of Things

A book that demonstrates the value of paying attention.

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RECENT ARTICLES

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  • Grandma’s organ donation
    On the mysterious arrival, and equally mysterious disappearance, of a Wurlitzer organ.
  • Orion’s belt-buckle
    In celebration of my adopted star.
  • ‘Spiritual’ won’t do
    In which I seek a better word to describe a profoundly uplifting sensation.
  • Undermining religious tradition: a time-honoured religious tradition
    Religious tradition has been being ‘undermined’ in Britain since recorded history began—most of the time by people of a distinctly religious persuasion.

RECENT REVIEWS

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  • Book review: ‘Improbable Destinies’ by Jonathan Losos
    How predictable is evolution?
  • Book review: ‘The Gallows Pole’ by Benjamin Myers
    18th-century Yorkshire meets the Sopranos: intrigue, betrayal, murder, and revenge in the Calder Valley.
  • Book review: ‘Built on Bones’ by Brenna Hassett
    15,000 years of urban life and death.
  • Book review: ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek’ by Annie Dillard
    Pulitzer-Prize-winning ruminations on the natural world.

RECENT NOTEBOOK ENTRIES

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  • What I did on my holidays
    An Anglesey timelapse video.
  • Going physical
    In which I get out there in meat-space.
  • One day my prints did come!
    In which I geek-out over some high-tech print-production apparatus.
  • Year of Getting Stuff Out There
    2017 is to be my ‘Year of Getting Stuff Out There’.

RECENT NEWSLETTERS

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  • Newsletter No. 8: But is it Art?
    iPads · s-town · babylonian astronomy · patti smith · james kelman · star-stuff · golden age of photography · conveying life's wonders · horses · bees · organ donations
  • Newsletter No. 7: Hacked and hurt by time
    John Tyndall · Galápagos cormorants · why English is so odd · Thoreau & Darwin · anthropological discoveries · mass-extinction hyperbole · WG Sebald · yellow rattle · Inigo Thomas · Mars exploration
  • 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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