A couple of weeks ago, Kathleen Jamie (whose poetry and prose I love) wrote a really interesting New Statesman review of ‘Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape’ by Cal Flynn. The book is about post-industrial wastes, contaminated landscapes, and how over time they become re-wilded, rich in bio-diversity. They change, in Jamie’s words, … Continue reading On the Dismantling of Millom Ironworks