Tag: landscape
The Half-Life of Snails
Sisters Helen and Jennifer live in the shadow of Wylfa Nuclear Power Station. Growing up in a sheep-farming family on the north coast of Anglesey, Wyl …
Read moreSolo Women Walking – So What?
Last month, a fellow writer contacted me. He found ‘the recent flowering of solo women walkers’ to be an interesting phenomenon and would appreciate m …
Read moreWhere We Live Now: Covid Toponyms
[We] read in place-names a record of important events and reconstruct something of the culture of the namers at the time they assigned names to the pl …
Read moreUnder the Stars: A Journey into Light
Years ago, somewhere between childhood and maturity, I took to night walking. We lived at that time in a village on the edge of the Somerset countrysi …
Read moreSuicide Machine
It’s just over a decade since I first met the photographer Dan Wood. I was gathering footage for a student film about creativity in our hometown, Brid …
Read moreThe Price of the Picturesque
The Emptying of Covid-19. It sounds like the title of a Thomas Pynchon novel. But for three long months, the skies cleared, the beaches were clean and …
Read moreWar and Culture in the Olchon Valley
When I first walked the Olchon Valley north of Abergavenny, Bruce Chatwin had just published On the Black Hill, his novel about two farming brothers i …
Read moreThe Lark Ascending
Richard King starts The Lark Ascending with a declaration: ‘The landscape is never truly ours.’ He then takes us on a journey through that landscape, …
Read moreSeahenge: A Journey
Seahenge: A Journey by Kevin Crossley-Holland and Andrew Rafferty (Kailpot Press, 2019) is a collaborative arrangement of poems and photographs set in …
Read moreThe Last Hundred
The Last Hundred, by Aaron Kent and William Arnold (Guillemot Press, 2019) is a collaboration between poet and photographer that creates a very real s …
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