Eddie Procter – The Rhiws of the Black Mountains: Liminal Ways, Old Beyond Memory
“The twins looked on the path to the Eagle Stone as their own private property. ‘It’s Our Path!’ they’d shout if they happened to meet…
Read articleJos Smith – ‘A Partly Real, Partly Imagined-Country’
Defining the rural is a notoriously difficult thing to do. ‘Not the urban’ might be the closest we can come but such a cumbersome negativity…
Read articleEvelyn O’Malley – Adventures in the Forest of Arden
Evelyn O’Malley is researching audiences, Shakespeare, place and environment for her PhD at the University of Exeter. In summer 2014, she followed a tour of Taking…
Read articleAn Interview with Tim Dee
Luke Thompson: You went to the BBC to become a radio producer and have said that you tend to make programmes on poetry and nature…
Read articleBen Short – An Uncomplicated Life
My life used to be complicated; it is no longer so. I left London over half a decade ago, having lived and worked in its…
Read article‘Soft Estate’ – An Interview with Edward Chell
‘Soft Estate’ is a term used by the Highways Agency to describe those natural habitats that have evolved alongside motorways in this country. It is also…
Read articleJack Clemo – Barney’s Tricks
‘Barney’s Tricks’ was written in October 1937, when the novelist, poet and autobiographer Jack Clemo (1916-1994) was 21 years old, and was published in Saundry’s…
Read articleWalking the Landscape of HS2 – Jos Smith
In the summer of 2013 Jos Smith set out to walk the length of the first section of the proposed route of HS2 from London to…
Read articleTim Dee – ‘Vinegar, Sawing, Smoking’
(This essay begins with two paragraphs that were published in Four Fields.) In the autumn of 1986, four months after the disaster at Chernobyl,…
Read articlePhilip Dunshea – Marchlands
I’m going for a walk in the Marchlands. This is where England and Wales are supposed to meet, but it’s always been a bit less precise…
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