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David Crouch – An Essay in Place
David Crouch is a dad and husband; an exhibiting artist, gardener and a Professor of Cultural Geography, Humanities Department, Arts and Design, University of Derby. His first book, with Colin Ward,…
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Ben 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 hothouse environment for nearly fifteen years. It…
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Jay Griffiths on writing fiction
Tragic or comic, feathered or jewelled, Harlequin or Pierrot, all fiction is a masquerade. We writers adopt disguises: we flirt, feign and play, and the story is the mask we wear. Behind…
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‘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 the title of a fascinating new…
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Jack 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 Almanack at the beginning of 1939.…
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Walking 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 Birmingham. Along the way he visited,…
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Tim 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, I moved to Budapest to study…
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Philip 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 than that. The line on the…
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Paul Kingsnorth – The Bay
This week Paul Kingsnorth offers us a very modern vision of Morecambe Bay. Paul is a writer who lives in Ulverston, Cumbria. Among other books, he is the author of Real England, a…
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Sophy Rickett – Objects in the Field
How do we look at the world before us? What is the quality of attention we bring to our environment, and what do we do with what we see? These are…
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The New English Landscape – An Interview with Ken Worpole
To celebrate and commend this landmark publication from Ken Worpole and Jason Orton, we present an interview about the book. The New English Landscape argues for the importance of a place once awarded ‘no…
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The Musical Landscapes of Sam Richards
1. Choose a landscape. It may be one you like, or it may be chosen by chance, or it may simply be a convenient one. You may wish to have a few…
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