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In Writing in Kent since 1900 an essay commissioned for the Kent Literature Festival 1986, Michael Baldwin jokes that there is a temptation to rate the "Kentishness" of fiction through "the prevalence of hop-poles, orchards and oasts...my own Kent, and Conrad's and W.W. Jacob's, is more a matter of tides, mudflats, pubs, masts and flintholes..."
In this essay and a chapter of The River and the Downs : Kent's Unsung Corner, Michael Baldwin offers a distinctive view of the literature of Kent, (and North West Kent in particular.)
Michael Baldwin grew up in Gravesend and Meopham. His work includes autobiography, poetry and novels. I am surprised that Kent Libraries do not have a copy of There's a War On a novel that is set in a small town in North West Kent during the Second World War. In his 1970 Times review, Roger Baker suggests that the novel "shows how the war was used- purposely and fortuitously- as a cover, or excuse for an alteration of standards..."
If I can't get hold of this novel, i'll try and write a little more about The River & the Downs which is a blend of the topographical and the literary. The book is punctuated with Baldwin's poems, including elegiac verses on Amy Johnson whose famous transatlantic flight of 1936 began at Gravesend Airport.
17 November 2009 from Rob Illingworth
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