Author Archives: robhunt510

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About robhunt510

Writer, artist

Where I am writing Betwixt – and why it’s so slow

Posted on July 17, 2012 by robhunt510

That’s the Euston road in sunnier times (2011). And a few yards away is this Which is the British Library. On Saturday the Radio 4 documentary I made with Vera Frankl about some of the readers at the British Library is broadcast. … Continue reading →

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A Poem

Posted on July 15, 2012 by robhunt510

A SMALL POEM FOR VLISSINGEN Zo de wind waait, waait z’n jasje  As the wind blows, so does his jacket (i.e. He will jump on any bandwagon) Dutch Proverb To light a cigarette with a candle Kills a sailor, they … Continue reading →

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Found Flushing Photos

Posted on July 15, 2012 by robhunt510

Maybe Tom? Sailing for where? Flushing 2011

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London – conversations with horses

Posted on February 23, 2012 by robhunt510

“Nietzsche believed that ‘only thoughts which come from walking have any value’. And look what happened to him, seething till his eyes popped out, conversations with horses.” Iain Sinclair, London Orbital, pp31 (2002)

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My Very Own Spaces in Between

Posted on October 19, 2011 by robhunt510

Even when intensely focused – on Coryat, his route, the Rhine, just finishing, the detail of everything from light to the often mythological names of the container ships that cruise the river – I am also living the bi-polar existence … Continue reading →

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The Walk to Duisburg

Posted on October 12, 2011 by robhunt510

This far into the journey a potential 40 kilometre walk holds few fears, and though the hills and mountains that have formed my backdrop in the mid Rhine have gone and i’m preparing for the flatlands of Holland there is … Continue reading →

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Art Haus

Posted on October 11, 2011 by robhunt510

The first towne that I came unto was Dysseldorp a faire towne of Cleve-land, situate hard by the Rhene, which is famous for two things, the one a magnificent Palace belonging to the Duke: the other the residence of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Anselm Kiefer, Beuys, Düsseldorf, Gonzalez Foester, Move It, Salon des Amateurs, tom coryat | Leave a comment

Tatort in Dusseldorf, following the money

Posted on October 3, 2011 by robhunt510

Late Sunday sun on Ratinger strasse in Dusseldorf, close to the river, and I am sitting on a bench at the Goldenen Einhorn, the Golden Unicorn, number 18 and built in 1630 – though in those days I assume the … Continue reading →

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A little Cruditie

Posted on September 30, 2011 by robhunt510

I felt bad taking the train to Dusseldorf until I discovered that Tom had taken a boat all the way from Cologne to Rees, and he’d ganged up with a bunch of Englishmen who he travelled with for the rest … Continue reading →

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Cologne and the Gunpowder Plot

Posted on September 30, 2011 by robhunt510

One final detail. On his last day in Cologne Tom saw, somewhere in the city, a portrait of the Jesuit Priest, Henry Garnett, who had been executed in London in 1606 in controversial circumstances. After his hanging it was claimed … Continue reading →

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