Richard Carter

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…
14 February 2021

I’ve generally had quite enough of winter, come February.
Keeping in touch

Who would have thought video-calls would become such an important way of keeping in touch?
Book review: ‘Lines in the Sand’ by A.A. Gill

Collected journalism.
Book review: ‘All Points North’ by Simon Armitage

Humorous memoir from the future Poet Laureate.
Book review: ‘The Fire of Joy’ by Clive James

Roughly eighty poems to get by heart and say aloud.
Book review: ‘The Sea View Has Me Again’ by Patrick Wright

Uwe Johnson in Sheerness (1974–1984).
Marmalade alchemy

A good way to spend a snowy day.
1 February 2021

A decidedly un-Februaryish day, and a close encounter with a heron.
23 January 2021

Snowy Hebden Bridge, and a non-snowy owl.
Book review: ‘The Stubborn Light of Things’ by Melissa Harrison

A nature diary.
New-year snow

There’s been snow on the ground since before Christmas, and throughout the first week of the year.