Islands of Abandonment – an interview with Cal Flyn
Cal Flyn is an author and journalist. Her most recent book, ‘Islands of Abandonment’ is a compelling account of ‘post-human’ landscapes – places from which human beings have largely withdrawn. In this interview we talk about her fascination with these landscapes and how they speak to contemporary environmental anxieties.
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Mitcham Common.
For years it was somewhere I drove through, a low-lying scrap of land on the outskirts of south London – brownfield, neglected, semi-derelict.