Writing
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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.
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The joy of the familiar—and the unfamiliar—on a local patch
Getting to know a place well means knowing what to look forward to, and appreciating when something unusual happens.
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An atheist somehow manages to tell right from wrong
To think of all the deliciously immoral acts I could have been getting up to today, if only it had occurred to me I needn’t be impeded by any sense of right or wrong.
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Book review: ‘On Writing Well’ by William Zinsser
The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction.
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Newsletter No. 2: ‘Glorified monkeys’
Anglesey • lost exploration craft rediscovered • writing advice from Rebecca Solnit • volcanic sunsets • Ted Hughes • typographical tips • a strange way to estimate π • Dull Men’s Club • street photography • free speech • Alexander von Humboldt • and more…
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An irrelevance in the landscape
On the realisation that the natural world gets on perfectly well without us.
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Notes from Nell Carr Farm
‘Notes from Walnut Tree Farm’ is by far my favourite Roger Deakin book. His assembled notes and jottings are packed full of ideas. The signal-to-noise ratio is phenomenal.