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Peter Wood

Peter Wood has worked for the Yorkshire Post, the Times and scientific journals and now specialises as a freelance in European industrial and economic news. He has had poetry and criticism published by Adam International Review, Poetry Manchester, Oasis and Outposts.

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Imagining the countryside: a response to Jonathan Meades

The picturesque is a vehicle of ruthless sentiment, but the greatest English artists offer a more humane, realistic vision of landscape.

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