Landscapism

Most of this piece was written in 2017 (probably after another soul-destroying election result) but left in draft and I just came across it ...

The arresting cover of  Ben Myers ' sixth novel is a statement of intent for the work inside: historical fiction with danger and har...

"The power had been completely placed in the hands of the Norman nobility ... and it had been used with no moderate hand." ...

A new collection by Jamaican poet Kei Miller; a dialogue between a map-maker, seeker of rational order and cartographical truth, and a...

After a two month lay-off due to a ruptured Achilles tendon I am glad to be back out roaming again. A day of late autumnal brilliance ...

As the somewhat dismal forces of nationalism, Utopian pipe dreamers and neo-con capitalism collide in Thursday's Scottish Referendum I ...

"I thought of walks in the English countryside, where people start shouting at you as soon as you stray from the footpath".   ...

  Following on from Kill List and Sightseers , I'm looking forward to Ben Wheatley's forthcoming film A Field in England ; tapp...

The Chartist Cave: Image from  www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk   "The union met in secret on the dark side of the hill, by the light of a...