by Eamonn Boylan | Sep 1, 2017 | Essays
An interview with Francis Spufford, RSL Review, Autumn 2017. “Spufford has used the calendar as a structuring principle which undergirds the rapidly unspooling action of the city. We may be lost in the double bluff of mercantile dealings, or in the crowd chasing...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 1, 2017 | Essays
Springlines, Little Toller, 2017: I contributed a memory of a Sussex pond to this book about hidden water in the landscape, with poems by Clare Best and paintings by Mary Anne Aytoun-Ellis. Springlines...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 1, 2017 | Essays
Commissioned by the International Literature Showcase and Writers’ Centre Norwich in 2017. The subject was to be ‘crossing borders’; the kind of border-crossing I started to think about was unexpectedly close to home. This essay was the beginning of...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jul 29, 2016 | Essays
I recommended Pulborough Brooks in a Guardian travel feature on favourite places, July 2016.
by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 1, 2016 | Essays
‘Virginia Woolf in 1916’, Centenary Programme, Charleston Trust, 2016. “She read enormously and immersively: Carlyle, Samuel Butler, contemporary novelists from Arnold Bennett to Elinor Mordaunt – who was, she thought, finding expression for things the...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 1, 2016 | Essays
A re-reading of Katherine Swift’s classic book for Slightly Foxed, Summer 2016. “We make our way from the silence of a December midnight (Vigils: the hour of darkness and waiting) to the high sun and roses of Sext. This is June, all life and busyness. Then...
