Exploration of Place

I've had quite a number of short stories published in anthologies over the past ten years, but the recent Caught By The River one seems to be getting by far and away the most coverage. Here is a great review of it by Lee Rourke in today's Independent.

"Childhood friendships are galvanised by an unsuccessful fishing trip for chub by the Wear in Ben Myers' exploration of place, "The Dirt Waterfall". But it's not all about the architecture of memory. Jarvis Cocker's "South Yorkshire re-creation of Apocalypse Now" is genuinely amusing, even when his River Porter voyage, "Acrylic Afternoons", becomes a metaphor for life...."