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Author Archives: A S H Smyth

Eerie-Ness

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Review of Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood’s poem/song/story/play on where past and present meet at Orford Ness. — For Perspective magazine

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Turned out nice again

Friday, January 28, 2022

With the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflict imminent, two Brits – one Stanley-based and one in Buenos Aires – discuss that ‘hottest’ of all conversational potatoes… the weather. — For The Emigre

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Around the World in 384 Days

Saturday, December 25, 2021

‘The Journal of Victor Emmanuel Smyth, made on a Voyage to Australia’ . Ever since I found a battered typescript in my parents’ house, about a decade back, at this time of year my thoughts quite often turn to Victor Emmanuel Smyth (1856-1947), the younger brother of my great-great-grandfather, who in 1875, set out on […]

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So Goode it’s bad

Friday, December 10, 2021

Forever and a Day: a James Bond novel by Anthony Horowitz (Random House Audiobooks, read by Matthew Goode, 7hrs 36mins) . Around the final Daniel Craig installment, there’s been inevitable talk of who should be the next James Bond. Well, I’ll tell you who it shouldn’t be, and that’s Matthew Goode. Three years ago, Anthony […]

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Trouble at’ Mill

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Researches into the life and afterlife of JS Mill, from South Asia to the South Atlantic. — For The Emigre

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Should I stay or should I Goh?

Monday, November 1, 2021

Or – how to get a rodent to walk on your balls (gratis). — For The Emigre

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Hiroo-worship

Monday, October 25, 2021

Review of Werner Herzog’s Das Dämmern der Welt – or (probably) The Twilight/Dawn (of the?) World. — For Perspective

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MILFs & Boon

Friday, October 1, 2021

Or – in the kitchen with my best mate’s mum. — For The Emigre

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Late-teen condenses Seamus Heaney

Thursday, September 30, 2021

war/conflict/Troubles land modern history of Ireland personal identity religion rural landscape vs industrialisation loyalty to roots vs leaving silence vs talking place language: Gaelic, Anglo-Saxon, Latin, English farming vs academia invasion (poignant) .

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A little less conservation…?

Thursday, September 2, 2021

Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World by Emma Marris Bloomsbury £20 (hardback) . Stepping slightly sideways from where she left off in Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World, Emma Marris now turns her attention to a series of ‘exercises in practical philosophy’ on the ethics of humans versus(?) wild animals. From […]

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