Poetry Landscapes

Journalism

Poetry Articles and Reviews

Garden History
 

   Burnham Overy Staithe

Journalism

Contributions in the late 70s and early 80s included those to The Times, Sunday Times and Guardian, Country Life, Countryman, county magazines, airline magazines and local papers, even Footwear Weekly. Sally Festing wrote profiles for New Scientist on Roy Robinson, Dr William Stearne, Sir Walter Bodmer and Dame Anne McClaren, a series on lady gardeners for The Garden (RHS Magazine). She appeared regularly, over ten years, in the two Times Education Supplements. In  Times Higher Ed Supplement she wrote for the arts pages,

A more recent piece in the Eastern Daily Press, 2004 ADD was about Welcome Thompson, a fisherman who built many houses in North Norfolk's Burnham Overy Staithe and Burnham Market.

Poetry articles and reviews include

Magma 26, Summer 2003, The Beauty of the Modern: the plastic arts and poetic parallels.
 

A piece about the work of German sculptor, Eva Hesse (1936-80) and Anne Carson's Eliot-prizewinning The Beauty of the Husband.

Magma 27, Autumn 2003
Review of Mick Delap's River Turning Tidal (Lagan Press, £6.95 ISBN 1873687 990)
 

Magma 28, Spring 2004, Entering the Tapestry, review of the second Poetry School Anthology, ed. Mimi Khalvati and Graham Fawcett (Enitharmon)

Magma 30, Winter 2004/5, WS Graham (1918-86) and Ken Smith (1938-2003), a dual celebration with notes on 'borrowings'.

Magma 34, Spring 2006, Review of Mr Irresistible by Angela Kirby (Shoestring Press), Look, Clare, Look! by Clare Pollard (Bloodaxe) and Take me with You by Polly Clark (Bloodaxe)

Poetry News (newsletter of the Poetry Society), Poetry in Leicester, Autumn 2005, p2. www.poetrysociety.org.uk
 

Garden History

academic articles include 3 groundbreaking pieces on the Pulham family who made rock gardens for Buckingham Palace and hundreds of famous gardens throughout the UK.
 

Journal of the Garden History Society, Autumn 1983, 11:2, pp 157-166, Cliffs, Glades and Grotto at Merrow Grange.
 

Journal of the Garden History Society, Autumn 1984, 12:2, pp 139-158, 'Pulham has done his work well'.
 

Journal of the Garden History Society, Spring 1988, 16:1, pp 90-102, Great Credit upon the ingenuity and taste of Mr Pulham'

Journal of The Garden History Society, 25:2, pp 230-237, Notes: James Pulham 3
 

Journal of Garden History, 1988, 8:4, p104-117, Menageries and the landscape garden
 

Journal of the Garden History Society, Autumn 1986, 14:2, pp 194-200, The Second Duchess of Portland and her rose.