Hidden Europe magazine
Hidden Europe magazine was a Berlin-based quarterly (and later thrice-yearly) print magazine that ran to a total of 70 issues before it ceased publication in 2023. As a guest writer, I contributed to many of these. A number of my features have been made available online (although without most of the original accompanying images). I include links to some of them below. Click on the title or image for the link.
Flint country: stories set in stone (hidden europe 70)
City of the Golden Fleece: Batumi, Georgia (hidden europe 67)
Nightingales and border Zones: Bulgaria’s Strandzha region (hidden europe 63)
The hills of Western Serbia (hidden europe 49)
Journey to Oni: a forgotten synagogue in Georgia’s Racha province (hidden europe 40)
Where cultures meet: Kazan (hidden europe 34)
New Towns: An Anthology (Wild Pressed Books)
I contributed a chapter to this anthology edited by R.M. Francis. My piece, entitled An Embarrassment of Roundabouts, is about the town whose suburbs I grew up in: Redditch, Worcestershire, which in the 1970s transformed from a small market town to a much larger Birmingham overspill new town.
ECHTRAI JOURNAL Edition 4
To this, the most recent edition of ECHTRAI JOURNAL, edited by Baz Nichols/Bran Graeme Nairne, I contributed a piece – Modern Nature – about the remarkable landscapes found at Orford Ness, Suffolk and Dungeness, Kent.
STRAVAIG #13
For this island-focussed edition of Stravaig, the journal of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, I wrote an essay on Rathlin Island off the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland.
The whole journal can downloaded by using the link below:
The Dig: New Netflix film unearths the tale of Suffolk Sutton Hoo ship burial
A feature I wrote for The i-paper on the 2021 Netflix film, The Dig, which concerned the human story around the excavation of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk.
England’s delectable, fleeting vegetable
Here is something I wrote on marsh samphire in Norfolk for BBC Travel magazine.
East of Elveden 