The Death of a Fish in Hackney’s Abandoned Filter Beds
LOCATION: London WORDS: Gareth E. Rees. In which I discover evidence of mythical battles in the abandoned Victorian filter beds by Hackney …
How We Used to Live
LOCATION: London DOCUMENTARY: How We Used to Live [2013, Dir. Paul Kelly] WORDS: Gareth E. Rees “Whenever you go down …
The Transhistorical Folk Landscapes of Lutine
MUSIC: Lutine ~ White Flowers ~ a new album of haunting minmalist folk by Brighton-based duo, Heather Minor and Emma Morton, …
The Humanoid Landscape – Whitstable and the gog/magog labyrinth
LOCATION: Whitstable WORDS: Gary Budden ‘An old lady up the street told me there was a dead giant laying in …
Folklorists and Antiquarians
Landscape artist Maxim Griffin, as featured in this very wobbly Unofficial Britain profile, has made some postcards for The Travin …
The Drinker’s London & the Poems of Salena Godden
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees In 2001 I became a weekend DJ in Filthy McNasty’s, a pub in Islington, sadly no …
Requiem for a Village
(1975, dir. David Gladwell) LOCATION: Suffolk Words: Gareth E Rees Requiem for a Village opens with a shot of a …
On Walking… And Stalking Sebald
A review of On Walking, by Phil Smith [Triarchy Press, 2014] Words: Gareth E. Rees Location: East Anglia Phil Smith …
Tales from the Black Meadow
By Chris Lambert “This is a beautiful, compelling book of folklore. What’s most haunting about this book is that the …
Connecting Nothing with Something
Influx Press Connecting Nothing with Something explores the conflicted and shifting landscape of the south east English coast. This …