Ask The Fellows Who Cut The Hay
Ask The Fellows Who Cut The Hay (Full Circle Editions ) by George Ewart Evans Review by Richard King. Romanticising our industrial heritage is an easy and often pleasurable trap to fall into. Like dreaming about what might have happened if Brian Clough had coached the national team, or wondering in awe at the scale [...]
Hand Drawn Maps of London Rivers
29 June 2010 // Miscellany //Rivers Book
John Richardson’s lino-cuts from ‘Words on Water’ join the hall of fame over at the Londonist website.
A Letter From The Inchbeg Fishing School
from Hannah Hamilton Caught by the River Field, 1. It’s summer, and has been for a good three weeks solid, but today the notoriously schizophrenic Irish weather has jumped forwards six months and soaked us with a grey, chilly, Octoberine afternoon. From my kitchen table, I can just about see the corner of the River [...]
A Year in the Woods by Colin Elford
A Year in the Woods by Colin Elford (Hamish Hamilton). Reviewed by Jon Berry It’s rare that I read a nature book that doesn’t have the swirls and bubbles of fish at its centre, but Colin Elford’s A Year in the Woods came to me highly recommended – and from someone whose life is even [...]
Van Morrison – The Common One
by Paolo Hewitt. “Won’t you meet me in the country, in the Summertime in England….” In 1980 Kevin Rowland of Dexys Midnight Runners went searching for the young soul rebels. He went to bars and pubs and cafés, even libraries and old people’s homes, but he could not find them anywhere. He gave up his [...]
Pike: Luke Jennings
25 June 2010 // Luke Jennings; Pike
Originally published in the London ES magazine on the 13th of December, 1996. This column, as I hoped it would, has stirred some childhood memories. Among those who have written to me is James Gunn, the son of one of the gamekeepers at Kenwood House before the war. Like the others of his five-strong gang [...]
Lines Made By Walking
24 June 2010 // Lines Made by Walking
by Jude Rogers. 14. Shore Lines. Out of the blue, work takes me to Yorkshire, to interview a grand old lady of folk music on a darkening June evening. First I race along the fast, clacking lines of the East Coast Main Line to York, then I change for the Trans-Pennine to Scarborough. Then the [...]
From Nick Small; Jeff, I was out photographing in Halifax today and came across this old sign stuck on the side of a mill….about 10 metres away from the junk strewn Hebble Brook. I wonder if anyone was ever prosecuted.
Congratulations
23 June 2010 // Matt's Bird of the Week //Miscellany
to Matt Sewell and his partner Jess on the birth of their daughter yesterday (“we had a baby girl and all is fine and dandy, she was born in Crowborough, how good is that”).In the absence of a photo we will celebrate by giving the first public showing to yet another fantastic piece of art [...]
Read The Country Bizarre
23 June 2010 // Country Bizarre
The Country Bizarre, now in new, improved, ‘issu’ format. Download it HERE.
