Mathew Clayton

• Shadows and Reflections

  It’s time once again for the annual end-of-year musings we call Shadows and Reflections. Today Mathew Clayton looks back over the past...

  29th December 2021

• On Gallows Down

  Mathew Clayton reviews Nicola Chester's 'On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging' — the story of a life shaped by...

  14th October 2021

• Coming & Going

  Composer Orlando Gough's 'Coming & Going', published by Uniformbooks, is a portrait and memoir of the city of Brighton. Mathew...

  27th July 2021

• Shadows and Reflections: Mathew Clayton

  We’re almost at the end of our annual run of musings known as Shadows and Reflections. Since so many of...

  20th January 2021

• The Cult of Water

  A watery, witchy pamphlet with words by David Bramwell and illustrations by Pete Fowler, published by Rough Trade Books, and...

  6th October 2020

• Side by Side

  Today Faber publishes Side by Side, which presents the lyrics, poems, writings and drawings of innovative musician Robert Wyatt and...

  18th September 2020

• Jim 'the fish' Smith

  Photo via Felix Clay/The Guardian From Mathew Clayton: I thought this might of interest - a recent obituary of Jim...

  3rd March 2020

• The World of Thomas Turner #8

  Here follows the final instalment of Mathew Clayton’s monthly column exploring the daily life of a Sussex village in the middle...

  22nd February 2020

• Shadows and Reflections: Mathew Clayton

  It’s time once again for the annual series of postings we like to call Shadows and Reflections, in which our...

  15th January 2020

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