Iain Sinclair in todays Guardian Review
‘Man In A Macintosh’ – Iain Sinclair tells the story of his quest for knowledge of a lost literary Londoner, from todays Guardian review. Get the paper itself if you’re not too late as the piece includes a portrait photo of the subject, Henry Cohen, in which Sinclair describes brilliantly as having, “…(the face of [...]
Five Dials – Issue 2
FIVE DIALS — twenty pages of new writing and reading, with a previously unpublished essay by the late great Roger Deakin; an appreciation of Roger by Robert Macfarlane; guerilla gardener Richard Reynolds on DIY grassroots activism; Jay Griffiths on the wild wisdom of trees; poetry by Benjamin Markovits; a new short story by [...]
Letters From Arcadia
‘Grape-Shot Of Wrath’
ja
thanks for your retro-blaster, the diamond dogs and one sergeant pepper on a midsummer jig, a doctor hook and the ferrule hound with the latching eyes; deserves its head on a bankstick with two rods between its ears. perch-trained i hope. while you were brewing guy fawkes crumb for fly tipping on [...]
The Changing Dimensions Of The Deep
by Chris Yates, from his forthcoming book ‘Out Of The Blue’.
Originally published in yesterday’s Telegraph.
Photo by Matt Spence
The chug back west in late afternoon became increasingly bumpy as a breeze picked up from the south, and by the time we got back to the cottage there was a proper wind blowing. My fishing companion, Matt, [...]
Richard Price & The Lush Life
by Clayton Moore, this article originally appeared on Bookslut
So I’ll live a lush life in some small dive
And there I’ll be
While I rot with the rest of those
Whose lives are lonely too. – Billy Strayhorn, “Lush Life”
For some reason, I end up having to go stalk perfectly well-behaved writers just days before the holiday blackout. [...]
Reasoning Wye
by Richard King
Some people – actually almost everyone – I know, treat their birthday as an opportunity to find out what would happen if you crossed a wedding with a wake, usually in the space of about three and a half hours.
As an only child born at the height of Summer my birthdays have happily [...]
Somers Town
Its rare that you find yourself confidently recommending a film without having seen it. I suppose winning best British film at the Edinburgh Festival this year minimises the risk. That said, anything by Shane Meadows is fantastic. Whether it be the darkness of ‘Dead Man Shoes’ or ‘Room For Romeo Brass’ (Paddy [...]
Kurt By The River
Fishing Lines: Yates the master picks up his pen and enjoys a sea change
19 August 2008 // Caught By...
by Keith Elliot, from The Independent, Sunday 17th August
Everyone assumes you’re bound to haul out shoals of giant fish if you so much as rub up against a famous angler. Isn’t true. I once fished all day with Chris Yates, a former carp record-holder and the doyen of angling writers. We didn’t catch even a [...]
ACA News
19 August 2008 // Caught By...
ACA News Update
Two tragic pollutions on the River Wye have been reported in the past couple of weeks. The first of these occurred on an upper river tributary, the Rhyd Hir Brook, and caused the death of nearly 1,000 juvenile salmon and trout. Meanwhile, lower down the system, more than 20,000 fish were killed in [...]
Caught by the River