The Impact of Dredging
A few months ago I mentioned that Owen Patterson (Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) was planning a relaxation of the by-laws governing…
Caught by the River Lea
Off uptown on Sunday (though the festival begins Saturday 27th) to Queen Elisabeth Park, East London, where I will read with fellow river-dweller John Andrews –…
The Palimpsest of Rivers
Question: what do these six English chalk-streams have in common and what makes this one New Zealand spring-creek so different? Answer: all the chalk streams have…
Earthlines and Silt Road
Melissa Harrison – author of the universally praised novel Clay – has reviewed Silt Road for Earthlines magazine and website. The Earthlines site and its print sister magazine…
A Place in the Country
I have reviewed WG Sebald’s A Place in the Country for Caught by the River. Newly translated by Jo Catling and published by Hamish Hamilton, this…
Silted Up
Unusual and delightful to turn up for a reading at Yellow Lighted Books, Tetbury, only to find a sonnet waiting for me, sent in by someone…
Ghost Mills of the Wye
This coming Sunday at 2.30, to accompaniment of a picture show, I will be reading of the ghost mills of the River Wye: of riots and…
A Storm-Cloud for Rivers?
I hear rumours that Owen Patterson, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – perhaps under pressure from the farming lobby – has proposed…
Sullen Mole
It seems I am irredeemably drawn to taking pictures of lost rivers through the windows of pedestrian overpasses (see Gunnersbury Ghost River). So here is a…
High Wycombe Library Events
I’ll be reading excerpts from and talking about Silt Road in High Wycombe this coming week. On Wednesday 17th I’ll be at Flackwell Heath Community Library…
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