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Gary Budden
Unofficial Britain’s Weird & Eerie Landscape Reads of 2020
Unofficial Britain’s editor, Gareth E. Rees, recommends some haunting books about place, memory and culture.
Uncanny Waters: Life and Death by Coasts and Canals
LOCATION 1: London, The Social, 28th February – tickets here LOCATION 2: Hastings, Electric Palace Cinema, 2nd March 2018 – …
Baleen
WORDS: Gary Budden LOCATION: Kent There was all the stuff you’d expect; heart lungs liver kidneys etc. Baleen thick and …
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 …
Heaven is a marsh in Winter
LOCATION: Essex WORDS: Gary Budden PICTURES: Maxim Griffin The book I chose to take deep into Essex’s marshland (from a …
Common Ground: Rob Cowen on Edgeland Literature, Psychogeography & Nature Writing
WORDS: Gary Budden interviews Rob Cowen I recently spoke to Rob Cowen, author of the excellent Common Ground, about his …
Landscape Punk to Supermarket Car Parks: Unofficial Britain Live in Stoke Newington
Unofficial Britain was honoured to host an event at Influx Press’s day at The Stoke Newington Literary Festival, 6th …
Election Night in Aberystwyth with Niall Griffiths
LOCATION: West Wales WORDS: Gary Budden ‘It’s hard to paraphrase; if I could paraphrase all this stuff then I wouldn’t have …
Specifics: Thoughts on birds and birdwatching
LOCATION: Kent WORDS: Gary Budden The sky is moody and grey. We park up in a windy carpark by Reculver towers, …
Five Things I Learned on Cricklewood Broadway
LOCATION: London WORDS: Gary Budden One Saturday morning, maybe half nine, wake to a hubbub outside the bedroom window. Down …