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Iain Sinclair: Prynne’s People, 22 October 2026

Waymarking a Life. Test Centre Books Catalogue 20: J.H. Prynne (1936-2026) 
by Will Shutes.
Test Centre Books, 76 pp., £15, August
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“... in its own right, trading for more than any of the individual items gathered within.Will Shutes of Test Centre Books, an experienced archivist, a book collector himself and a former small press publisher, knew all this before he launched his business. He tracked that fertile poetic period, somewhere between 1968 and 1979, when a bias towards ...”

Dykes, Drongs, Sarns, Snickets

David Craig: Walking England, 20 December 2012

The English Lakes: A History 
by Ian Thompson.
Bloomsbury, 343 pp., £16.99, March 2012, 978 1 4088 0958 7
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot 
by Robert Macfarlane.
Hamish Hamilton, 432 pp., £20, June 2012, 978 0 241 14381 0
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“... roads, trods, leys, dykes, drongs, sarns, snickets’, to say nothing of ‘holloways, bostles, shutes, driftways’. There is a long tradition here: walkers might be wayfarers for whom travel is work (drovers, wranglers, messengers, shepherds), or those honour-bound to reach a goal (pilgrims, crusaders), or those who walk for the sake of the ...”

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