Robert Atkinson, Island Going. Article in Slightly Foxed literary review magazine

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Stac Lee

Paul Kershaw

Mark Valentine explored the Isles and wild seas with Robert Atkinson in his article on Island Going in Slightly Foxed Issue 50, beautifully illustrated by Paul Kershaw’s woodcut of Stac Lee, home to part of the world's largest colony of northern gannet.

The Islands Beyond

Mark Valentine on Robert Atkinson, Island Going

Here, I knew at once, was a skilful writer who took joy in what he made. The book proved to be about two students barely out of their teens who go off to look for a bird: to be exact, Leach’s Fork-tailed Petrel, which the author describes jauntily as ‘like a true ornithologist’s child, cumbrously museum-named and not far removed from the class of lesser yellow-bellied fire-eater’.

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