Writing
Filter writing: Sidelines (blog) • Newsletters • Reviews
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Book review: ‘Selected Letters of Philip Larkin’ (Anthony Thwaite, ed.)
Hugely entertaining correspondence from one of Britain’s most popular poets.
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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.
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Newsletter No. 4: ‘Paint to pufferfish’
Robert Macfarlane • Hilary Mantel • Martha Sprackland • Viking wool • Charles Darwin’s reading habits • human evolution • praying to Elrond • drawing • making ink • Rebecca Solnit • insectivorous plants • do pufferfish hold their breath? • and more…
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Book review: ‘Man of Iron’ by Julian Glover
Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain.
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Book review: ‘The Making of the British Landscape’ by Nicholas Crane
How we humans shaped the landscape of Britain, from the Ice Age to the present.
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The Welsh side
In all my years visiting the Dee Marshes, I had never looked across them from the Welsh side.
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Going physical
In which I get out there in meat-space.
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One day my prints did come!
In which I geek-out over some high-tech print-production apparatus.
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Newsletter No. 3: ‘Peaking too soon’
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…
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Year of Getting Stuff Out There
2017 is to be my ‘Year of Getting Stuff Out There’.
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2016: a year in photos
My sixth annual video slideshow review of the year.
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Book review: ‘Poetry Notebook’ by Clive James
Sorting the poetic wheat from chaff.