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No longer rocket science

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A Zoom lecture makes me yearn for the golden days of blogging.

Published 22-Feb-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: blogging, Dave Winer, Mark Cocker, social media, technology

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

Book review: ‘Crow Country’ by Mark Cocker

‘Crow Country’ by Mark Cocker

A meditation on birds, landscape and nature.

Published 09-Feb-2020
Filed under: Writing Genres: Nature & Place Tags: birds, Mark Cocker, reviews

Newsletter No. 17: Scoffing all the berries

Fieldfare on our hawthorn

Island Review · Julian Hoffman · John Green · Dorothea Lange · Jonathan Meades · Rebecca Solnit · Willowherb Review · Robert Macfarlane · Dave Winer · Horatio Clare · Mark Cocker · Steve Rutt

Published 06-Dec-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Horatio Clare, island review, Julian Hoffman, Mark Cocker, on writing, Robert Macfarlane, Stephen Rutt, Willowherb Review

Book review: ‘A Claxton Diary’ by Mark Cocker

‘A Claxton Diary’ by Mark Cocker

Further field notes from a small planet.

Published 03-Oct-2019
Filed under: Writing Genres: Essays, Nature & Place Tags: Mark Cocker, reviews

Book review: ‘Claxton’ by Mark Cocker

‘Claxton’ by Mark Cocker

Field notes from a small planet.

Published 03-Oct-2019
Filed under: Writing Genres: Nature & Place Tags: Mark Cocker, reviews

Newsletter No. 15: Semi-immersed

Semi-immersed

writing & research · milestones · Anthea Bell · island wardens · hillforts · pubs · oak trees · ancient ships · self-improvement · Mark Cocker · Jan Morris · Melissa Harrison

Published 02-Nov-2018
Filed under: Writing Tags: Charles Darwin, Jan Morris, Mark Cocker, Melissa Harrison, on writing, Sidelines

Book review: ‘Our Place’ by Mark Cocker

Our Place

Can we save Britain’s wildlife before it’s too late?

Published 29-Sep-2018
Filed under: Writing Genres: Nature & Place Tags: Mark Cocker, reviews

My bat-shit crazy hypothesis about rooks

Rook

A ridiculous observation concerning rooks, which can't possibly be right.

Published 04-Feb-2015
Filed under: Featured Articles, Writing Tags: birds, Dee marshes, Mark Cocker, Nathan Emery, On the Moor (book), proto-sidelines, science

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