2016-03-19 18:53
The all-new Issue 9 is out now, with - for the first time in the long and illustrious history of the Quiet Feather - a COLOUR cover, beautifully illustrated by Miss Ping/Julie McDermott.This… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Thank you for visiting the Quiet Feather blog.The Quiet Feather magazine was a quarterly-ish publication which started up in December 2003. The last issue (Issue 9) came out in summer 2007.W… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Anyone lucky enough to be a woman writer over 40 should very quickly run away from this page and have a look at the Hosking Houses Trust site. They're all for the 'Room of One's Own' princip… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
It's been a long time since I had that feeling of finding something completely unique in a second hand charity shop. It happened to me recently in Truro. Venus Speaks purports to be the true… Read More
2007-05-28 21:13
Have you ever wondered what the top 90,000 words in English are and what their precise ranking is by frequency of use? Fret no longer. The answers are here Read More
2007-05-12 13:46
The other morning, before work, I finished Roger Deakin's book Waterlog, a journal of his swim through the British Isles. It's a book I'd recommend and I'd like to talk about it here, but re… Read More
2007-04-26 12:36
From time to time Shoreline Films in Barrow-in-Furness get in touch asking us to pass on details of events and film-making courses they're running. These are usually free or dirt cheap, run… Read More
2007-04-02 13:58
How fitting that The Quiet Feather's new Light issue should, roughly, coincide with a lunar eclipse. Unfortunately, I was in too much of a drunken state to truly appreciate the cosmic link… Read More
2007-03-29 07:46
We are very pleased to announce that we have been granted funding from the Arts Council. They are supporting us in a project to develop the magazine and its distribution. Hopefully this wi… Read More
2007-03-29 01:26
Today I wanted to see this:But where I live we've had no snow.I went to the beach and this is what I saw:Only it was colder. No snow. Where's the fun in that? Read More
2007-03-23 11:30
Last night we had our first content meeting for the next magazine. The mag, the exciting first edition of our new redesigned, bigger and better QF is looking good and we have some great con… Read More
2007-02-21 01:38
Ever since 2001 when I went on a Biosphere Expeditions trip to Bieszczady in south east Poland I've thought wolves were best. I spent two weeks tramping round the forest in snowshoes, follo… Read More
2007-02-09 07:21
Issue 9 of the Quiet Feather will be out in a couple of weeks. This one's all about light - glowing, gleaming, gorgeous stuff it is too. If you can't wait to read all about it here's a littl… Read More
2007-02-09 03:14
That's right. We have a myspace. Finally. Like everyone else. And despite there being very little up there at the moment, we already have 29 friends! So join us if you want to receive regula… Read More
2006-12-07 15:09
I was on the tube the other day and after a long day at a course wasn't entirely excited by the soothing rhythmic clattering of the tube being broken by broken English. "I from hungary. I… Read More
2006-12-04 20:39
When I heard that artists Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson had been documenting taxidermic polar bears to be found in British museums I immediately wondered… Read More
2006-11-29 18:41
This really isn't all that funny, but every time I look at it I can't help being amused Read More
2006-11-29 14:11
I've recently become hooked on Eric Lerner's Mr Citymen videos, featuring often desperately sad Mr Men figures wandering around city blocks in grainy camcorder-vision. In particular, office… Read More
2006-11-24 11:46
My don't we look like a jolly bunch. The near hysteria on our faces is partly the result of eating quantities of licorice and aniseed flavour Fox's Glacier not-mints. We were also pushing th… Read More
2006-11-24 11:28
Our friend Alice takes an interest in medieval history. She sent us this: "In German trials by combat, women didn’t get champions to fight for them. They had to fight the duel themselv… Read More
2006-11-24 11:24
The latest issue of the Quiet Feather has come over all mountainous to coincide with the Kendal Mountain Festival. Inside you'll find an interview with mountain man Chris Bonington, articles… Read More
2006-11-12 18:26
Following on from the last post, I find that the emergence of camera phones has vastly increased my chances of capturing those "decisive moments" as Cartier-Bresson would have called them. F… Read More
2006-11-08 17:45
It's easy to be overwhelmed with internet, one click buy, throw away, shop or die commercialism. But the other day as I walked through the bustling market day of sleepy Ulverston I was stru… Read More
2006-10-27 16:45
JapanThis clip was simply headed 'Japan'. It has to be the most wonderfully satisfying thing ever to come out of youtube. I mean it. This is what we should be teaching our children to do in… Read More
2006-10-25 16:56
This collection of Eastern European matchbox covers made Taissa feel faint with happiness Read More
2006-10-23 12:43
"Jasper Morello and the Lost Airship” is the first (and currently, only) part of “The Mysterious Geographic Expeditions of Jasper Morello”, and you must see it. It’s… Read More
2006-10-05 10:34
RUSSIA. Altai Territory. 2000. Villagers collecting scrap from a crashed spacecraft, surrounded by thousands of white butterflies. "Satellites" is a photographic journey through the scattere… Read More
2006-09-14 13:07
Australian Device Makes Maps Of the Ground It CoversThe odd apparatus at left is the Australian “co-graph,” which automatically maps the ground over which it moves. Named for its… Read More
2006-08-30 11:12
...to find ourselves mentioned in the distinguished pages of the Rialto (www.therialto.co.uk):"Cornerhouse Arts Centre in Manchester has an excellent bookshop: I came home with copies of two… Read More
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