New book review…
#RonaldBlythe #NatureWriting
http://richardcarter.com/reviews/book-review-next-to-nature-by-ronald-blythe/

#Suffolk #RonaldBlythe #Akenfield In the 1960s a book was published, later filmed. It gained some traction at the time being a reflection of village life. I think the BBC may well show the film again in due course 2315 BBC4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hqnw

A lovely piece by #RonaldBlythe on the Northamptonshire poet #JohnClare and hiding away http://johnclareessays.blogspot.com/p/john-clare-in-hiding.html

The writer and thinker #RonaldBlythe has died, a man rooted in Suffolk and the countryside. His obituary in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/15/ronald-blythe-obituary

#RonaldBlythe and #JohnClare in one post. In celebration of Ronnie’s 100 years of life, he died last Saturday.

Writer #RonaldBlythe died aged 100 last Saturday. Here he is writing about #JohnClare and gypsies.

When I read #JohnClare on the gypsies. He both hobnobbed with them and was fastidious where they were concerned, was prejudiced and unprejudiced at the same time. He wrote many poems about them which envied their lot, their freedom, their women, and one poem which envied them nothing:

https://johnclare.blogspot.com/2007/03/vagabondage-in-native-place.html

Sunset picture looking towards Wormingford over the Stour Valley from Wiston. For those who are interested Ronald Blythe's house is just out of shot. He was 100 recently.
#StourValley
#RonaldBlythe
#Akenfield

Sunset picture looking towards Wormingford over the Stour Valley from Wiston. For those who are interested Ronald Blythe's house is just out of shot. He was 100 recently.
#StourValley
#RonaldBlythe
#Akenfield

Lovely book. But surely we readers and century-old #RonaldBlythe deserved a WHOLE dustcover, Mr John McMurray?

RT @PParkerWriting@twitter.com

“One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.”
Ronald Blythe, who celebrates his centenary today (born 6 November 1922).

#ronaldblythe #Centenary #100yearsold #akenfield

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