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Writing tagged: ‘Patti Smith’

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: ‘Just Kids’ by Patti Smith

‘Just Kids’ by Patti Smith

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe and their lives together.

Published 20-Mar-2020
Filed under: Writing Genres: People Tags: Patti Smith, reviews

Book review: ‘Year of the Monkey’ by Patti Smith

‘Year of the Monkey’ by Patti Smith

Further quirky memoirs.

Published 10-Nov-2019
Filed under: Writing Genres: People Tags: Patti Smith, 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. 8: But is it Art?

Moor grass doodle

iPads · s-town · babylonian astronomy · Patti Smith · James Kelman · star-stuff · golden age of photography · conveying life's wonders · horses · bees · organ donations

Published 11-Aug-2017
Filed under: Writing Tags: astronomy, ipad, Patti Smith, photography, podcasts

Newsletter No. 3: Peaking too soon

Robin, Dee Marshes
Robin, Dee Marshes

Patti Smith · when your taste exceeds your talent · Spinosa · giant snowballs · reconciling longitude · two toddlers in a trench coat · opinions that need to be justified · Earth's days lengthen · the universe has 20 times more galaxies than we thought · dinosaur tail preserved in amber · John Berger

Published 06-Jan-2017
Filed under: Writing Tags: astronomy, history, Patti Smith, photography, science, YOGSOT

Newsletter No. 1: Kudos to youdos

Spoonbills
Spoonbills, little egret, grey herons and Canada geese

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

Published 02-Sep-2016
Filed under: Writing Tags: Arthur Ransome, birds, Charles Darwin, GrrlScientist, Julian Hoffman, Patti Smith, Robert Graves, W.G. Sebald

Book review: ‘M Train’ by Patti Smith

‘M Train’ by Patti Smith

A fascinating exercise in ‘writing about nothing’.

Published 28-Aug-2016
Filed under: Writing Genres: People Tags: books, Patti Smith, reviews, W.G. Sebald

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  • Newsletter No. 21: Positively sluggish
    Richard Mabey · Tim Dee · Mark Cocker · Amy Liptrot · Kathleen Jamie · Patti Smith · Alan Bennett · Melissa Harrison · Urban Birder · Patrick Wright · Clive James · and more…
  • Newsletter No. 20: Giving it the David Attenboroughs
    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.

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    Late February seems to have decided it’s April.
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    A Zoom lecture makes me yearn for the golden days of blogging.
  • 21 February 2021
    The annual February pre-spring clean of our blue tit nest-box.
  • 14 February 2021
    I’ve generally had quite enough of winter, come February.

RSS Recent Articles

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    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.

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

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