Climate Change, Ecological Breakdown & Neoliberal Anxiety in the English Edgelands
LOCATION: Southern England WORDS: Gareth E. Rees, author of Unofficial Britain “Global warming had gone past the tipping point, the …
A Murdered Cyclist on the Pevensey Levels
In this film, Gareth E. Rees revisits the site of the strange murder in his new book, Terminal Zones
Echtrai – the Secrets of Lost, Abandoned & Mythic Landscapes
Introducing a brand new journal of writing and art that explores forgotten places
The Fate of England’s ‘Infant Hercules’
A review of Stripped Tees: Endurance and Hope in the North East by Richard Milward and Natalie Hardwick [Influx Press, …
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 …
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 …
Marshland: Dreams and Nightmares on the Edge of London
By Gareth E. Rees, illustrated by Ada Jusic [Influx Press, 2013] Marshland is a deep map of the east London …