Outer Space Travel In Manchester’s Makro
LOCATION: Manchester WORDS: Gareth E. Rees I only remember Makro because of its car park, the space outside the place. The interior of Manchester’s warehouse cash ‘n’ carry store was forbidden to children under twelve, so my parents would leave
Pier Pressure: Matchbook etiquette and Dizzee Rascal’s Birthday Cake
LOCATION: Hastings, East Sussex WORDS: Ben Thompson Piers are by definition irrational structures – temporary institutions, neither sea, nor land, living on borrowed time until the inevitable conflagration. But then, which of us hasn’t felt that way at one time
The Cornish Lost Kingdom & The Oil Spill: A Catastrophic Soundscape
LOCATION: Cornwall ALBUM: Kemper Norton, ‘Toll’ LABEL: Front and Follow WORDS: Gareth E. Rees Kemper Norton’s new concept album brings together the lost Cornish kingdom of Lyonesse and a 1967 oil tanker disaster that occurred in the same stretch of
Enon Chapel: death, horror and dancing in Victorian London
LOCATION: London WORDS: Alex Cochrane Victorian London was a charnel house of the dead; a city oozing horror and nowhere more so than a small chapel where they danced on the dead. By 1842 London was the modern mega city
And Also the Trees: Born Into The Waves (An appreciation)
WORDS: Justin Hopper Born Into the Waves is a series of offerings, not of events; of settings, not actions. It presents a landscape in which the sea is as deadly in its calm as its torrent, the world swirling around
On the Trail of the Green Man: An interview with Nina Lyon
WORDS: Gary Budden I spoke to author Nina Lyon about her latest book Uprooted: On the Trail of the Green Man (Faber, 2016), a brilliant piece of creative non-fiction about our attitude to nature and the environment, the resonance of
The Helm Wind of Cumbria
LOCATION: Cumbria WORDS & IMAGES: Eijls ‘When heard and felt for the first time it does not seem so very extraordinary; but when we find it blowing and roaring morning, noon and night, for days together, it makes a strong
Notes from the Moor & Soggy Scribbles
LOCATION: Yorkshire WORDS & PICTURES: Maxim Griffin ABOUT THE ARTIST: Maxim Peter Griffin is a landscape artist, cartographer and walker based in Lincolnshire.
Landscape Laments & Incantations
WORDS & IMAGES: Eijls Eijls is the author of a steadily growing body of works that recall “the lost, forgotten, abandoned and mythic” landscapes of Britain. His work encompasses experimental texts, photography and found fragments. These are sometimes accompanied by
Archaeology Now (or What I found when I was looking for the Bronze Age on Skeleton Hill)
LOCATION: Lincolnshire WORDS & PICTURES: Maxim Griffin Striking out on a bright Friday in March – I’ve got a job on with some archaeologists and I’m heading to the far side of the bypass to scope out the bronze
