National Canal Laureate Roy McFarlane (rmcfarlane63) on being inspired by the great Benjamin Zephaniah (Professor Benjamin Zephaniah). Plus, scroll for two of Zephaniah's previously uncollected poems, from the recently published Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics boundlessmagazine.com/p/poems-publis…

Mark Twain died in 1910. But he continues to speak to our present moment in ways that are as startlingly prescient as they are witty, brazen, and bold." Shelley Fisher Fishkin on what Mark Twain would think of today's political predicaments: boundlessmagazine.com/p/reader-suppo…

Congratulations Francesca Reece! Earlier this year, Francesca wrote this great piece for us spinning off from her book, on the long history of protest in Wales — have a read here: boundlessmagazine.com/p/burning-cott…

"Writers of science-based narrative nonfiction can help scientists communicate their work and doing this is part of how we combat the spread of fake news. They can translate between worlds." boundlessmagazine.com/p/did-aliens-b…

Congrats to Kaliane Bradley on making the shortlist with The Ministry of Time! Back in February, Kaliane let us into her obsession with piecing together the patchy life of Polar explorer Robert McClure, which you can read here: boundlessmagazine.com/p/finding-robe…

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On the latest episode of the Boundless podcast, Patrick Galbraith talks to Richard Negus about hedgelaying, nature writing, and the disconnect between the urban and rural sphere Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/12j3FR… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/hed…

You'll love this Boundless Magazine podcast, & can meet both Richard Negus & Patrick Galbraith in person at #Leiston book festival on 20th September. Tickets here: leistonbookfestival.co.uk

Patrick Galbraith and I discuss Words From The Hedge here. Ask The Fellows Who Cut The Hay...and lay the hedges while you are about it.

"Exploring Coppermill Lane is a bit like watching open heart surgery on a city – those unseen arteries that course about it, service it and sustain it come to the surface, many old and failing after centuries of hard living." boundlessmagazine.com/p/flying-over-…

And read an excerpt from the brilliant Goldengrove, here: boundlessmagazine.com/p/rain-over-wo…

Wrote about my grandad knocking on the door every Saturday when I was a kid with bags full of shopping and a Lion bar in his pocket — and how times, and the high street we once frequented, have changed boundlessmagazine.com/p/a-chocolate-…

"I had expected there to be girls in horsey girls in white trousers and men in gilets who had studied Land Economy drinking lukewarm pints out of those plastic cups. But it was not, it became clear [...] that sort of do." boundlessmagazine.com/p/some-kind-of…

"Even then, that familiar murmur, the buzz that travelled with him everywhere, had risen in pitch and volume and become audible." An extract from Faiqa Mansab's The Sufi Storyteller: boundlessmagazine.com/p/the-worst-si…

"But rather than ‘cleaning up’ the area around the park, the imposition of the chain link fence has created a narrow, terrifying corridor far worse than anything I’d ever seen." Chris Kraus on what Los Angeles wanted to be: boundlessmagazine.com/p/malaise-of-a…

Another in my cafe/museum column with Boundless Magazine - this time at The Camera Museum, a small, intricate, perfect place behind The British Museum. open.substack.com/pub/boundlessl…