Tag Archives: Suffolk

Orford Ness

Posted on June 20, 2012 by

Walking, whether rambling or hiking in the countryside, or the unplanned urban exploration of a would-be flâneur’s dérive - call it what you will - seems to be the hippest new literary genre. Often found cosily in tandem with what can only be described … Continue reading →

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Patience (After Sebald) – Walking The Rings of Saturn

Posted on March 7, 2012 by

About a year ago I wrote a post about an Aldeburgh Music weekend at Suffolk’s Snape Maltings that celebrated the life and works of the writer W G Sebald. A new film by Grant Gee, Patience (After Sebald), was also previewed on that … Continue reading →

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Suffolk Coast Walks

Posted on February 15, 2012 by

If I might be allowed a little shameless self-publicity, my new book Suffolk Coast and Heaths Walks: Three Long-distance Routes in the AONB is published today by Cicerone. A bit of a  mouthful, I know – let’s just call it ‘Suffolk … Continue reading →

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Metal Box

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

There are strange low hills in the vicinity of The Port of Felixtowe in Suffolk. Not the product of tectonic upheaval or Ice-Age earth shifting but man-made plateaus of painted steel. Around what is the largest container port in Britain vast acres of stacked shipping … Continue reading →

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W.G.Sebald, In Memoriam

Posted on February 21, 2011 by

The UEA-based German writer, W. G. (‘Max’) Sebald, died just over nine years ago in a car accident close to his home south of Norwich. One of his most famous books, and certainly the one most closely connected with the … Continue reading →

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