David Craig

David Craig taught English for many years at Lancaster University. His most recent book is The Fourth Quarter, about getting old.

In the LRB Archive:

• Dykes, Drongs, Sarns, Snickets: Walking England · 20 December 2012

  • The English Lakes: A History by Ian Thompson
  • The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane

• Two Poems · 25 September 2008

• Two Poems · 23 June 2005

• Diary: The Call of the Abyss · 11 September 2003

• At Tate Britain: Mountain Art · 25 April 2002

• Tortoises with Zips: The Snow Geese by William Fiennes · 4 April 2002

  • The Snow Geese by William Fiennes

• Landlord of the Moon: Scottish islands · 21 February 2002

  • Sea Room: An Island Life by Adam Nicolson

• Diary · 24 May 2001

• Perfectly Mobile, Perfectly Still: Land Artists · 14 December 2000

  • Time by Andy Goldsworthy

• Diary · 9 December 1999

• Virgin’s Tears: on nature · 10 June 1999

  • Nature: Western Attitudes since Ancient Times by Peter Coates

• It makes yer head go: James Kelman and Gordon Legge · 18 February 1999

  • The Good Times by James Kelman
  • Near Neighbours by Gordon Legge

• Diary: in Florence · 26 November 1998

• Poem: ‘Operation’ · 22 January 1998

• Diary · 30 October 1997

• The Wildest, Highest Places · 17 July 1997

  • John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings edited by Terry Gifford

• Among Flayed Hills · 8 May 1997

  • The Killing of the Countryside by Graham Harvey

• True Grit · 8 February 1996

  • Wainwright: The Biography by Hunter Davies

• Diary · 13 May 1993

• Diary · 20 December 1990

• Powerful Moments · 26 October 1989

  • Touching the void by Joe Simpson
  • Climbers by M. John Harrison

• Heimat · 6 July 1989

  • A Search for Scotland by R.F. Mackenzie
  • A Claim of Right for Scotland edited by Owen Dudley Edwards
  • The Eclipse of Scottish Culture by Craig Beveridge and Ronald Turnbull
  • The Bird Path: Collected Longer Poems by Kenneth White
  • Travels in the Drifting Dawn by Kenneth White

• Taking the hint · 5 January 1989

  • The King’s Jaunt: George IV in Scotland, 1822 by John Prebble

• Comprehensible Disorders · 3 September 1987

  • Before the oil ran out: Britain 1977-86 by Ian Jack
  • In a Distant Isle: The Orkney Background of Edwin Muir by George Marshall

• Poem: ‘Apologia pro Poematis Meis’ · 9 July 1987

• Climbing · 5 September 1985

• Eric’s Hurt · 7 March 1985

  • Eric Linklater: A Critical Biography by Michael Parnell

• • Everything you need by A.L. Kennedy

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