sam dodd

I work with land and literature. Landworker at Spitalfields City Farm, Ops Manager at the Poetry Translation Centre, experienced community workerarts administrator, & writing mentor.

I am a writer, with surrealist work appearing in Lumpen: Journal of Working Class Writing; poetry and prose in multiple grassroots zines and journals; and biographical pieces in community anthologies. My Substack series is called The Edgelands.

As a researcher I have received awards for my research and published papers. My areas of interest include: writer development, access to the arts, information access, radical & community histories, public & prison libraries, spatial justice, city farms, counter-mapping, land access, and psychogeography.

From 2014-2024 I managed CityLife: Stories for Change, an intergenerational community life-writing project; and from 2022-2025 I served on the board of Spread the Word writer’s charity

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The Edgelands: Nuclear Borderlands & Cumbrian Homelands

The Northern Nuclear Accident & Unmoored Wanderings.

Welcome to Edgelands post #4. This week I wander through the radiation-soaked landscape of the Cumbrian Windscale disaster story holding my grandpa’s calloused hand, stopping off at an orchestra that makes music out of the frequencies from nuclear radiation. I look at the sorrow that comes from the way humans both destroy and create things of beauty, and as usual, explore money and power, walking and wildernesses. Click below to read, and I hope you enjoy.

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